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EARLY SETTLERS OF 

Nantucket 

THEIR ASSOCIATES AND DESCENDANTS 



COMPILED BY 

LYDIA S. HINCHMAN 



ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND WITH DRAWINGS BY 

MARGARETTA S. Hinchman 




FERRIS & LEACH 

29 North Seventh Street 
1901 



THF LIBRARY OF 
Two ClJ^HE8 Heceiveb 

JAN. 13 ^902 

COPyRIOHT ENTRY 

iCLA$S IX XXa No. 






Copyright, 1901, 

BY 

Lydia S. Hinchman. 



IN WHOSE INTEREST THIS WOEK WAS UNDERTAKEN 

AND 

Eo mg lister 

MAKY A. ALBERTSON 

WHOSE ASSISTANCE IN GENEALOGICAL WOEK HAS BEEN OF 

GREAT VALUE 

El^ta Book 10 affectionatels ©eticatetJ 



PREFACE. 

It has not been the plan of the compiler of this book 
to make an exhaustive history of Nantucket, or a com- 
plete genealogy of its various families. 

Several histories and genealogical books of individual 
families have been prepared, and are a great help in a 
work like this. 

It is not necessary, however, to the islanders that 
complete genealogies be put at their disposal, since the 
town, court and Friends' records are imusually complete 
and well preserved, and may be consulted if one really 
" wants to know." 

There are matters which, to the people of !N"antucket, 
who have one hundred or more years of family record 
on the island, are of common interest. 

It must be remembered that very few of the early 
settlers came directly from the old world to IsTantucket. 
Settlements were located on the " main land," and 
family alliances made which are now interesting to 
note; and in the few instances where the families are 
brought down to the present time, it is intended to show 
the cropping up wherever one may go of descendants of 
the quiet Quaker people whose beginnings were so 
humble, but whose influence has been so widespread. 

If some names are mentioned of those who have at- 
tained prominence, it is not with the view of passing 
others by. Perhaps the credit may be due not to him 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

who has made his mark, but to the earnest parent who 
in his far-off island home has toiled 

To save all earnings to the uttermost. 
And give his child a better bringing up 
Than his had been, or hers. 

The early settlers were pioneers in every sense of 
the word, and had more of family history than of 
this world's goods with which to begin life. The 
American ancestry of IN^antucketers is not alone on 
the little island, which it is our pleasure to honor, but 
may be found in several States. 

The purpose of this volume is to follow to some ex- 
tent the wanderings and the manner of life, not only of 
the early settlers themselves, but of their associates and 
descendants. 

The compiler would express her appreciation of the 
valuable information given by members of the several 
families whose lineage is herein set down. 





CHAPTER PAGB 

I.— Deeds of Pubchase and Settlement of the Island, 1 

Discovery — Names of Purchasers — Ten Proprietors Added — 
Houses Built — Town Named. 

II.— Thomas Macy, . . . . .14 

Arrival in America — His Record in Salisbury, Massacliusetts — 
Violation of Laws iu Religious Matters — Admonition — Apology — 
Departure for Nantucket. 

III.— Edward Starbtjck, .... 19 

Settlement at Dover, New Hampshire — Possessions in Dover — 
Profe.ssion of Anabaptism — Joins Thomas Macy on his Voyage 
to Nantucket — Name of Starbuck Associated with his Former 
Possessions until 1716— Deed of Conveyance to Nathaniel Star- 
buck. 



IV.— Tristram Coffin, ..... 

Birth — Marriage — Arrival in America — Early Ancestry — Coffin 
Home in Normandy and England — Life and Services at Nan- 
tucket— Commission as Chief Magistrate of Colony— Sketch of his 
Children. 



24 



v.— Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet, 

His Early Life in Boston — Interest in Nantucket— Services for 
the King— Story of his Whaling Experience— Marriage and Death 
in England. 



41 



VI.— Stephen Greenleaf, with some Account of His 

Father, Edmund Greenleaf, . . 46 

Origin of the Family — Arrival in America of Edmund Greenleaf 
and Family — Public Service— Extract from Will -Stephen 
Greenleaf as Proprietor of Nantucket— Military and Civil Ser- 
vices — Death. 



VIT.— CnKTSToriTKR IlrssKY, .... 50 

l!:iptisiu:>l Ixooonl— Murriage — Arrival in Boston — Settlement nt 
lliiiiipton, New Hampshire — P*ubUc Services — Stephen UrssKY 
— Account of Stephen BatclieUior and John Wing. 

VIIL— Other Puopeietors, . . .60 

UoBKKT PiKK — Sottlemcnt at Salisbury— Relations with Nan- 
tuckot— Vublic l.ilV— TiuiMAS Coi.kman as Pivprietoi^-THOMAS 
AND KonKKT BARNARD— Pnip'"'<-'''^>'* c^ Nautuckot and Keooiil 
at Salisbury and Amosbury— Riohard Swain — Couueotion of 
his Kaniily'with AVoare Family, of Hauipton, New JUampshii-e— 
John Swain :us IViprietor— llis House. 

IX.— Pkteu Folgku. . . . . .67 

Orisjin of Foltrer Familv — Peter Folger's Arrival in America — 
Ijfo and Missionary \Vork at Martha's Viuin-arvi — Cotton 
Mather's Pescriptioii of lliiu — Settleiuont at Nliutucket— His 
Family —Benjamin Fnmklin and his Bescendants in Bhiladel- 
phin— Walter Folirer -Maria Mitchell— »laoob Bjirker— Thomas 
Prence — William Collier— "William Allen Butler— Charles James 
Folger. 

X.— Thom.\s Gardiner, and His Sons Eichakd and 

John Gardner, .... 79 

Settlement in America — Life at Cape Ann and Salem — Removal 
of Richard Gakdnkr to IS ant ucket— Richard as Magistrate — 
John Gardnkk as Magistrate on Kantucket, Judge of" l^robate, 
aud Captain of "Flbot Company.'' 

XI. — Samfkl SHATTUCK, . . .86 

.Vssociation of N.iute with Xautueket — Persecution — Banishment 
fivui America — Samuel Shattuck's Return to America with the 
King's Maudate. 

XII.— Thomas Mayhew and Thomas Mayhe-w, Jr., 96 

Thomas Mayhew as Proprietor of Nantucket — His Life at 
Martha's Viueyar\l — Missionary Work of Thomtis Mayhew. Jr., 
among IndiJius— Children and Pesi-eudauts of Thomas Mayhew, 
Jr. 

XIII.— OrSTOMS, DOCrMENTS AND INCIDENTS OF NANTFCKET, ItKl 

XIV.— Xantucket in the Eetohttion. .111 

An Explanation of the Xeutral Position of Nantucket during the 
Revolutionary War. 

XV.— EXTIUVCTS FROM JOURNALS OF THOMAS CHALKLEY, 

John Richardson and Thomas Story*, giving 

some accornt of the else of friends on 

Xantpcket, . . .120 

Establishment of Friends' Meeting — Present Condition of the 
Society on the Island. 

XVI.— An Impartial Judgment, . . 133 



mtiail at Descent from ^ropttEtora anil Settlers. 

XVII.— The Mitchell Family, ... 141 

XVIII.— The Russell Family, . . . .149 

XIX.— The Swain Family, ... 152 

XX.— The Bakker Family, . . . .155 

XXI.— Family of Lucretia Mott, . . .160 

XXII.— Families of Thomas Earle and John Milton 

Earle, ..... 166 

XXIII.— The Swift Family, . . . .169 

XXIV.— Family of William Rotch, . . 176 

XXV.— Wing and Hathaway Connection with Nan- 
tucket Families, . . . .183 

XXVL— Newhall Connection with Nantucket 

Families, ..... 189 

XXVII.— Family of Abraham Macy, . . .195 

XXVIII.— Family of Josiah Macy, of New York, . 203 

XXIX.— Cornell Connection with Nantucket, . 211 

XXX.— The Coggeshall Family, ... 216 

XXXI.— Stanton Connection with Nantucket Families, 221 

XXXII.— Connection of The Waterman Family with 

Nantucket, . . . . .224 

XXXIII.— The Wadley, or Wadleigh, Family, . 227 



XXXIV.— Family of Coffin Colket, . . .231 

XXXV.— John Greenleaf Whittier, . . 234 

XXXVI.— The Nathan Bunker Family, . . .237 



Appendix I., . . • • • .243 

Appendix II., . . . • • .307 

Names of Ministers of the Society op Friends and 
Their Companions Who Visited Nantucket 
from 1664 to 1847, ... 317 




FULL-PAGE PLATES. 



The Town op Sherbukne, 



Frontispiece. 



OPP. 

FAGB 



Sankaty Head, 



Abraham Quary, 



The last native representative of Indian blood on Nantucket; 
died in 1854. 



Professor Maria Mitchell, 

pobtledge, ...... 

The CofBn Manor House in England. 

Elizabeth, Widow of Richard Coffin, Esq., 

"Portlineh;" bom 165L 
The Tristram Coffin Hottse, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 
Dresser in The Tristram Coffin House, . 
Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet, 
The John Swain House, Nantucket, 
Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, ..... 
Birthplace of Maria Mitchell, Vestal Street, Nantucket, 
Professor Henry Mitchell, .... 



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26 

28 
29 
41 
66 
69 



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"Sheaking Day," . . . . . .100 

The Old Grist Mill, . . . . . 109 ' 

Watching for Whaleships, . . . .Ill 

Timothy Folger, . . . . . . 114 

Photographed from a painting by George Fish, after Copley. 

John Richardson's Meeting, . . . .120 

A Nantucket Street, .... 133 

A Nantucket Garden, . . . . .135 

"The Order and Manner of Seating and Placing of 

THE PaRISHNOURS AND InHABITANCE OP THE 

Parish of Brixton anno Domini 1638," . 306 

Copied from the Original Coffin School Medal, . 313 - 

Richard Coffin, Esq., of Portledge, . . . 314 

Sheriflf of Devonshire in 1699. 



(garlg Scttlcr0 of Nantucket 

Cfjeit ^000ciat£S anU ©egceittianta. 




CHAPTER I. 

DEEDS OF PUKCHASE AND SETTLEMENT OF THE ISLAND. 

Belknap, in his Biography of Biron,* says, " An Ice- 
lander of the name Herioff and his son Biron * made a 
voyage every year to different countries for the sake of 
traffic. 

" About the beginning of the eleventh century 
(1001) their ships were separated by a storm. When 
Biron * arrived in Norway he heard that his father was 
gone to Greenland, and he resolved to follow him; but 
another storm drove him to the southwest, where he 
discovered a flat country, free from rocks, but covered 
with thick woods, and an island near the coast." 

When on his return to Greenland liis discoveries be- 
came known. Lief, the son of Eric, Earl of N'orway, 
equipped a vessel, and " taking Biron * for his pilot 
sailed (1002) in search of the new country." 

Belknap says, " Biarne's * description of the coast is 

* Bjorne. 



2 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

very accurate and in the island situate to the eastward 
(between which and the promontory that stretches to 
the eastward and northward Lief sailed) we recognize 
Nantucket. The ancient ISTorthmen found there many 
shallows." There is little doubt that Nantucket was 
visited by Englishmen very early in the seventeenth 
century (1002). 

In the biography of Gosnold, Belknap says, " The 
shoal water and breach which he calls Tucker's Terror 
corresponds with the shoal and breakers called Pol- 
lock's Rip. ... To avoid this danger, it being late in 
the day, he stood so far out to sea as to overshoot the 
eastern entrance of what is now called the Vineyard 
Sound. 

" The land which he made in the night was a white 
cliff on the eastern coast of Nantucket now called 
Sankaty Head. 

" The breach which lay off Gilbert's Point I take to 
be the Bass Rip and the Pollock Rip with the cross rip- 
plings which extend from the southeast extremity of 
that island. 

" Over these ripplings there is a depth of water from 
four to seven fathoms, according to a late map of Nan- 
tucket, published by Peleg Coffin, Esq., and others." * 

Some one has said, " He only has the credit of dis- 
covery who locates." Captain Weymouth was the first 
to give the geographical position of Sankaty Head in 
1605. 

It is difficult to imagine any native of Nantucket 

*American Biography. By Jeremy Belknap, D.D. With Addi- 
tions and Notes by F. M. Hubbard. Published by Harper (Si- 
Brothers in 1843. 



Sankaty Head. 



Settlement of the Island. 3 

who would not be interested in facts relating to its his- 
tory, whether geographical, historical, geological, or 
genealogical; but the practical interest for us of the 
present day dates from 1659, when it was finally set- 
tled by sturdy men, ancestors to so many in this broad 
land that a brief detail of the public services of those 
pioneers cannot fail to be of value to their descendants. 

Tradition assigns two causes for the sudden de- 
parture of Thomas Macy and Edward Starbuck from 
Salisbury, Massachusetts. 

Many of their descendants have believed that perse- 
cution on account of the harboring of Quakers led those 
early settlers to leave an already established home, to 
seek another upon a desolate, bleak island, where skulk- 
ing Indians, added to its isolated position, made a most 
inhosj)itable landing-place. 

On the other hand, most historians attribute the 
journey of Thomas Macy and Edward Starbuck in 1659 
to a business negotiation between them and Thomas 
Mayhew in regard to the purchase of the island of ISTan- 
tucket. 

Benjamin Franklin Folger, one of the well-known 
genealogists of ISTantucket, has stated that early in 1659 
Tristram Cofiin went on a voyage of investigation, first 
to Martha's Vineyard, where he secured the services 
of Peter Folger as interpreter, thence to ITantucket, 
" his object being to ascertain the temper and disposi- 
tion of the Indians and the capabilities of the island 
that he might report to the citizens of Salisbury what 
inducements for emigration thither were offered." 

Thomas Mayhew, some years before, had received a 
grant of the islands off the southeast coast of Massa- 



4 Earlij Settlers of Nantucket. 

chusetts from William, Earl of Sterling, and Sir Fer- 
nando or Ferdinand Gorges, as is shown by the records 
in the secretary's office at Albany, New York, Kan- 
tucket having belonged to J^ew York until about 1690. 

In 1659 the island or the patent of it was still in the 
possession of the Mayhews. 

r. B. Hough's book says, " In 1659 the elder May- 
hew admitted nine others to a joint partnership in the 
Island of IS'^antucket, reserving a small part to himself, 
and in February following it was agreed that each 
Partner might admit another to an equal share in 
Power and Interest, not being justly excepted to by the 
Kest." 

We find on record that in July of 1659 a deed was 
given by Thomas Mayhew, confirming the sale of the 
island of Nantucket to nine purchasers, — viz.: 

Tristeam Coffin. 

RiCHAED Swain, or Swaywe. 

Peter Coffin. 

Stephen Geeenleaf. 

William Pike. 

Thomas Macy. 

Thomas Baenaed. 

Cheistophee Hussey. 

John Swain, or Swayne. 

Note. — In 1641 Nantucket appears to have been under the 
control of William, Earl of Sterling, and Sir Fernando or Ferdi- 
nand Gorges, as " during this year the Elizabeth Islands, Capar- 
rock or Martha's Vineyard, Nanticon or Nantucket and Tuck- 
anuck or Tuckanuckett " were " gi'aunted unto Thomas Mayhew 
at Watertowne, Merchant, and to Thomas Mayhew his sonne." 

The consideration named in the deed of Nantucket was " that 
Thomas Mayhew and Thomas Mayhew his sonne or either of 



Settlement of the Island. 5 

Copy of Deed of Nantucket to Nine Purchasers 
{dated July 2, 1659). 

" Kecorded for Mr Coffin and Mr Macy afores"^ ye 
Day and Year afores^. 

" Be it known unto all Men by these Presents that I, 
Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard, Merchant, 
doe hereby acknowledge that I have sould unto Tris- 
tram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Rich- 
ard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen 
Greenleafe, John Swayne and William Pike that Right 
and Interest I have in ye Land of JSTantuckett by Pat- 
ent; y^ w'^^ Right I bought of James Pforrett, Gent, 
and Steward to y^ Lord Sterling and of Richard Vines, 
sometimes of Sacho, Gent., Steward-Gen''^^ unto Sir 
Georges Knight as by Conveyances under their Hands 
and Scales doe appeare, ffor them y® aforesaid to In joy, 
and their Heyres and Assignes forever w*^ all the 
Privileges thereunto belonging, for in consideration of 
y^ Sume of Thirty Pounds of Current Pay unto whom- 
soever I y® said Thomas Mayhew, mine Heyres or As- 
signes shall appoint. 

" And also two Beaver Hatts one for myself and one 
for my wife. 

" And further this is to declare that I the said 

them or their Assignes doe render and pay yearly unto the 
Honbie the Lord Sterling, his Heyres and Assignes, such an ac- 
knowledgment as shall be thought fitt by John Winthrop Esqr 
the Elder or any two Magistrates in the Massachusetts Bay, 
being Chosen for that End and Purpose by the Honbie the Lord 
Sterling or his Deputy and by the said Thomas Mayhew and 
Thomas Mayhew his Sonne, or their Assignes." This deed was 
dated October 13, 1641. 



6 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Thomas Mayliew have received to myself that IsTeck 
upon Nantucket called Masquetuck or that Neck of 
Land called ISTashayte the Neck (but one) northerly of 
Masquetuck, y*^ aforesaid Sayle in anywise notwith- 
standing. And further, I y^ said Thomas Mayhew am 
to beare my Part of the Charge of y^ said Purchase 
above named, and to hold one twentieth Part of all 
Lands purchased already, or shall be hereafter pur- 
chased, upon y® said Island by y^ afores"^ Purchas""^ or 
Heyres and Assignes forever. 

" Briefly: It is thus; That I really sold all my Patent 
to y^ aforesaid nine Men and they are to pay mee or 
whomsoever I shall appoint them, y^ sume of Thirty 
Pounds in good Marchantable Pay in y® Massachu- 
setts, under w'"'^ Governm* they now Inhabit, and 2 
Beaver Hatts, and I am to beare a 20* Part of y^ 
Charge of y^ Purchase, and to have a 20*^ Part of all 
Lands and Priviledges; and to have w'^'^ of ye Necks 
afors*^ that 1 will myseKe, paying for it; only y^ Pur- 
chasers are to pay what y® Sachem is to have for Mas- 
quetuck, although I have y^ other Neck. 

" And in witness hereof I have hereunto sett my 
Hand and Scale this second Day of July sixteen hun- 
dred and fifty-nine — (1659). 

" Per me 

" Tho. Mayhew. 
" Witness John Smith 

" Edwaed Seaele." 

By this deed it will be observed that a share of the 
island was retained by Thomas Mayhew, and in this 
way he became one of the proprietors who are said in 



Settlement of the Island. 7 

all histories of the place to have founded the settle- 
ment. 

On May 1st, 1901, Mr. Henry B. Worth, who is au- 
thority on old iN^antucket records, sent to the Inquirer 
and Mirror * a copy of a deed by which a portion of 
E'antucket was conveyed by the Indians to Thomas 
Mayhew; this deed antedates that previously published 
as the first deed, and is confirmatory of the theory that 
business negotiations between Thomas Macy and his 
friends, and Thomas Mayhew were pending for a con- 
siderable time before the deed of July 2d, 1659, was 
executed. 

Mr. Worth says that "the deed seems to have re- 
mained in the possession of Mayhew and his family 
until the Indians appealed to the General Court to re- 
cover their lands, when the owner found the old deed 
and placed it on record," March 26th, 1731, Book 4, p. 
93. 

" The record is accompanied by a plan which plainly 
indicates the section covered by the deed." 

COPY OF THE DEED OF " TWENTYETH OF JUNE, 1659." 

" ' This doth witness that we, [Nickanoose of Nan- 
tucket, Sachem, and Nanahumo of N'antucket, Sachem, 
have sold unto Thomas Mayhew of the Vineyard the 
plain at the West end of Nantucket, that is, according 
to the figure underwritten, to him, his heirs and assigns 
forever. In consideration whereof we have received 
by earnest of the said Thomas Mayhew the sum of 



A weekly paper of Nantucket. 



8 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

twelve pounds answerable to Peage at 8 a penny; also 
the said Sachems have sold the said Majhew of the 
Vineyard the use of the Meadow and to take wood for 
the use of him the said Mayhew, his heirs and assigns 
forever. 

" ^ In witness hereof we the Sachems aforesaid have 
hereunto set our hands this twenty eth of June 1659. 
The pond Acamy lieth north and by east and south and 
by west or near it,' 

" The deed is signed by the marks of the two 
Sachems and is witnessed by Mr. Harry, also by John 
Coleman, Thomas Macy and Tristram Coffin; it is 
therefore clear that these witnesses were at that date 
in Nantucket. " 



The records indicate that in February, 1659, months 
before the execution of the deed of conveyance of 
Thomas Mayhew to nine purchasers, " the associates in 
Salisbury, Massachusetts, were enacting rules and regu- 
lations concerning the method of governing iN^an- 
tucket." 

Thomas Macy and his friends appear to have lost no 
time after the business arrangement between Mr. May- 
hew and the Indians was completed, the purchase being 
effected within two weeks after the transaction with 
JNTickanoose and IvTanahumo. 

The follo^^^ng deeds prove that notwithstanding the 
purchase of the island from Thomas Mayhew, a busi- 
ness negotiation was made with the Indians also, and 
that the land was fairly bought from them: 



Abraham ^uiry. 



1 nave 



The last native representalive of Indian blooti on A'antucket. 
Died in 18^4. 



Settlement of the Island. 9 

DEED OF WANACKMANACK. 

" This witnesseth that I, Wanackmanack, Chief 
Sachem of I^antucket, hath sold unto Mr. Tristram 
Coffin and Thomas Macy their heirs and assigns that 
whole neck of land called by the Indians Pacnmmoh- 
quah,* being at the East end of Xantucket, for and in 
consideration of five pounds to be paid to me in Eng- 
lish goods, or otherwise to my content by the same 
Tristram Coffin aforesaid at convenient time as shall be 
demanded. 

" Witness my hand or mark this 22 of June 1662. 

Wanackmamak. 

" Witness hereto, Peter Eolger and Wawinnesit 
whose English name is Amos." 

" Copy of Indian deed of l^antucket, Recorded for Mr. 

Tristram Coffin and Mr. Thomas Macy, ye 29th of 

June 1671 aforesaid. 

" These P'^sents Wittness y* I Wanackmamack Head 
Sachem of y^ Island of Kantuckett, have Bargained 
and sold, and doe by these Presents Bargaine and Sell 
unto Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Rich'^ Swayne,^ 
Thomas Bernard, John Swain, Mr Thomas Mayhew, 
Edward Starbuck, Peter Coffin, James Coffin, Stephen 
Greenleafe, Tristram Coffin Jun'", Thomas Coleman, ^ 
Robert Bernard, Christopher Hussey, Robert Pyke, 
John Smyth, and John Bishop these Islands of IvTan- 
tucket, namely, all y^ west end of y^ afores*^ Island 
unto y^ Pond comonly called Waquittaquay and from 
y^ Head of that Pond to y^ ISTorth side of y^ Island 

* Poeomo. 



10 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Manamoy; Bounded bj a Path from ye Head of ye 
Pond aforesaid to Manamoy; as also a Neck at y® 
East End of y^ Island called Poquomock,* w*^ the 
Property thereof, and all ye Royaltyes, Priviledges and 
Immunityes thereto belonging, or whatsoever Right I 
y^ afores*^ AVanackmak have, or have had in ye same: 
That is, all y^ Lands afore menconed and likewise ye 
Winter sseed of y^ whole island from y^ End of an In- 
dyan Harvest untill Planting Time, or y^ first of May, 
from yeare to yeare forever, as likewise Liberty to 
make use of Wood and Timber on all Parts of y^ Island; 
and likewise Halfe of y^ Meadows and Marshes on all 
Parts of y® Island w^'^out or beside y^ afores*^ tracts of 
Land Purchased; And likewise y^ use of y^ other Halfe 
of y® Meadows and Marshes, as long as y^ aforesaid 
English their Ileyres or Assignes live on ye Island; 
And likewise I the aforesaid Wanackmamack doe sell 
unto y^ English afore menconed y^ propriety of y*^ rest 
of y^ Island belonging unto mee, for and in considera- 
con of "fforty Pounds already received by mee or other 
by my Consent or Ord. 

" To Have and to hold, ye afores'^ Tracts of Land, 
^th ^e p'riety, Royaltyies, Immunityes, Priviledges, 
and all Appertenances thereunto belonging to them y^ 
afores^ Purchas""^ their Heyres and Assignes forever. 

" In witness Whereof I the afores'' Wanackmamack 
have hereunto sett my Hand and Seale y*^ Daye and 
Yeare above written. 

" The Sign of Wanack-Mamack. 

" Signed, Sealed and Delivered 
in y® p'^sence of 

* Pocomo. 



Settlement of the Island, 11 

" Peter Foulger, 
" Eleazer Foulger, 
" Dorcas Starbuck." * 

RECEIPT OF WANACKMAMACK. 

{Nantucket Records, Old Booh, Page 27.) 

" Eeceived of Tristram Coffin of ISTantuckett, the 
just Slime of five poun, which is part of the seven 
poun that was unpaid of the Twenty poun Purchase 
of the Land that was purchased of Wanackmamack 
and !Neckanoose, that is to say from Monomoy to 
Waquettaquage pond, ITanahumack Keck and all from 
Wesco westAvard to the west end of !N^antucket, I say 
Eeceived by Me Wanackmamack of Tristram Coffin, 
five pounds Starling the 18*^ 11 M 1671 

" The Mark X of Wanackmamack. 
" Witness hereunto 
" RicHAED Gardner. 
" Elezer Folger." 

The following Associates were chosen by the first 
Proprietors : 

Tristram Coffin, Jr. John Smith. 

PoBERT Pike. Robert Barnard. 

Thomas Coleman. Edward Starbuck. 

^Nathaniel Starbuck. Thomas Look. 

James Coffin. Thomas Mayhew, Jr. 

* Dorcas Starbuck was a daughter of Edward Starbuck. 
Eleazer Foulger was a son of Peter Foulger. 

Note. — The official records of these deeds a,re in the oflBce of 
the Secretary of State, Albany, New York. 



12 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

They purchased or were given a half-interest in the 
original apportionments, making at a very early date 
twenty landed proprietors. 

Among these were men of varied experience and 
marked executive abiKty, evinced by their embracing 
every opportunity for the advancement of the settle- 
ment, and soon an interesting society was established 
upon the island. 

The first houses were built at the northwest, not far 
from a small harbor now called Maddequet Harbor. 

Later the larger harbor on the north side of the island 
offered decided advantages, and the town was finally 
located there and named Sherburne, in compliance with 
written orders of Governor Lovelace, of Kew York, 
recorded in Albany in the Secretary's ofiice in Book 
of Deeds III., p. 85. Many of the houses were moved 
from their original sites to the new town. 

ISTumbers at first were so small that intermarriages 
among these families were very common, and it is not 
infrequent for a descendant to find the same settler in 
his family tree several times. 

These intermarriages made relationships so close that 
until the latter half of the nineteenth century, when 
new people began more and more to move to the island, 
nearly all natives of Kantucket were cousins through a 
common ancestry. 

An amusing incident was related to the writer by 
Maria Mitchell, who during her residence in the ob- 
servatory at Vassar College, received and entertained 
many guests; on one occasion she was greeted with 
" Miss Mitchell, I met a cousin of yours the other 
day." " Where ? " was the natural question; '' on 



Profess 07' Maria Mitchell . 



Settlement of the Island. 



13 



Nantucket," the expected reply. Miss Mitchell quick- 
ly said, " Oh, very likely; I have five thousand cousins 
on Nantucket." At that time five thousand covered 
the entire population of the island. 

The population increased steadily until about 1849, 
when the California gold fever led many to seek wealth 
on the Pacific Coast, and later, the final decline of the 
whale fisheries compelled the younger men to find 
means of support elsewhere, and in comparatively few 
years the population decreased from nearly ten 
thousand to less than five thousand. ^ 




CHAPTER n. 

THOMAS MACY. 

Near the town of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, England, 
in the Parish of Chilmark, resided (" prior to his em- 
barkation for America, probably in 1635 ") Thomas 
Macy. 

The name of the vessel upon which he came to 
America is not recorded, but he arrived not later than 
1639. 

Thomas Macy was among the original settlers of 
Salisbury, Massachusetts, and is in " The first or Origi- 
nal list of ye to^\'nsmen of Salisbury in y*^ booke of 
Records." 

Among those to whom lots of ground were granted' 
in Salisbury we find the names of Thomas Macy, 
Robert Pike and Phillip Challis. There is no date to 
the paper or document giving this list, but it is indexed 
1639. 

Merrill's map of Amesbury locates most of the lots 
on the " Circular Road." Macy's lot is given on the 
" road to the neck." 

In 1650 "Phillip Challis, Robert Pike and Tho. 
Macy " were included in a list of Commoners, and at 
the same meeting at which they were so enrolled we find 
" it was ordered y* all whose names are here under 
written shall be accomp^ed to^^Tiesmen & Comoners & 
none butt them to this p^'sent." * 

* Hoyt, pp. 8-9 and 11. 



\ Thomas Macy. 15 

We find also recorded that he was " a mercliaiit, 
planter,* one of the select-men of the town, a juryman, 
and, withal a preacher." 

The Massachusetts laws passed in 1656 and 1657 
were a great drawback to freedom of worship. 

Several persons were prosecuted for violating the 
law of 1657 which prohibited entertaining Quakers. 
Among these was Thomas Macy, who was fined thirty 
shillings, notwithstanding his " explanation and apol- 
ogy," and was ordered to be admonished by the gov- 
ernor. 

It is a matter of record that he sheltered Edward 
Wharton, William lioljinson, merchant of London, and 
Marmaduke Stephenson, of Yorkshire, England. The 
two last named were hanged in Boston the 27th of 
October, 1659. 

The following letter from General Court files is a 
copy of a reply to a summons to appear at court to 
answer for his violation of the law in this particular: 

" This is to entreat the honored Court not to be 
offended because of my non-appearance. It is not 
from any slighting the authority of this honored Court, 
nor from f eare to answer the case, but I have bin for 
some weeks past very ill, and am so at present, and not- 
withstanding my illness, yet I desirous to appear, have 
done my utmost endeavour to hire a horse but cannot 
procure one at present. 

" I being at present destitute have endeavoured to 
purchase, but at present cannot attaine it, but shall re- 
late the truth of the case as my answer should be to y® 

* A farmer. 



16 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

honored Court, and more cannot be proved, nor so 
much. 

'' On a rainy morning there came to my house Ed- 
ward Wharton and three men more, the said Wharton 
spoke to me saying that they were travelling eastward 
and desired me to direct them in the way to Hampton, 
and asked me how far it was to Casco Bay. 

" I never saw any of y^ men afore except Wharton 
neither did I require their names, or who they were, 
but by their carriage I thought they might be Quakers 
and told them so, and therefore desired them to passe 
on their way, saying to them I might possibly give 
offence in entertaining them, and as soone as the vio- 
lence of the rain ceased (for it rained very hard) they 
went away and I never saw them since. 

" The time that they stayed in the house was about 
three quarters of an hour, but I can safely affirm that 
it was not an houre. 

" They spake not many words in the time, neither 
was I at leisure to talke with them, for I came home 
wet to y® skin, immediately afore they came to the 
house and I found my wife sick in bed. If this satisfie 
not the honored Court I shall subject to their sentence. 

" I have not willingly offended. I am ready to serve 
and obey you in the Lord. 

" Thos. Macy." 

He was a Baptist, and on the Sabbath frequently ex- 
horted the people; this, too, was in violation of the 
Massachusetts law which prohibited all but the regular- 
ly ordained from such ser\'ice. 



Thomas Macy. 17 

Tradition says that immediately after his bentence 
Thomas Macy removed to JSTantucket. 

In the " Macy Genealogy '' it is related that " in 
1659 he embarked at Salisbury in a small boat with his 
wife and children and such household goods as he could 
conveniently carry, and in company with Isaac Cole- 
man and Edward Starbuck set sail for jSTantucket." * 

The same papers say, " because he could not in jus- 
tice to the dictates of his own conscience longer submit 
to the tyranny of the clergy and those in authority." 

It appears from the above detail that Thomas Macy 

Satisfied the requirements of the law and paid his fine, 

but undoubtedly he believed he could lead a more 

peaceful and independent life at JSTantucket, and may 

have preferred voluntary exile to possible banishment. 

Thomas Macy must have returned to Salisbury, as he 
is recorded as living there in 1664. 

Before his removal to IN^antucket he was commis- 
sioner, and representative to the General Court from 
Salisbury, and the citizens of that town bore testimony 
of their sympathy with him, by electing his friend and 
defender Robert Pike as his successor. 

That he again, at a later date, removed to Xantucket 
is evident from old records, Register's office, in which 
it will be found that October 1, 1675, he was commis- 
sioned chief magistrate of the town. 

He was the first recorder appointed on the island, 
and a portion at least of the first Book of Records in 
the office at ISTantucket was written by him. 

He died April 19, 1682, aged seventy-four. His 

* James Coffin, son of Tristram, Sr., is said to have accompanied 
the three named. 



18 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

wife, Sarah (Hopcot) Macy, who came with him from 
Chilmark, survived him for nearly a quarter of a cen- 
tury. 

John Mact, son of Thomas and Sarah Macy, born 
at Salisbury July 14, 1655, married Deborah Gard- 
ner, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Shattuck) Gard- 
ner, and died at ISTantucket, October 14, 1691, at the 
early age of thirty-six; through him alone the name has 
descended to posterity. 

Note. — In 1637-38, George IMacy appears to have been prom- 
inent in the settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts. Savage (vol. 
iii., p. 142) says he was in 1643 lieutenant in King Philip's War, 
and representative in 1672 and for six years; also among the in- 
habitants of Taunton in 1668 there was a Samuel Macy, who is 
supposed to have been a son of George and to have died single 
prior to the death of his father; of this Taunton family there ia 
no further record, nor of any others of the name excepting 
Thomas and his descendants. 

The only reasons for supposing George Macy was of the same 
family as Thomas are the name and the date of his emigration 
to America. 

The name Macy signifies mace or staff. 



CHAPTEK III. 

EDWAKD STAEBUCK. 

Edwaed Staebuck was born in 1604, and came from 
Derbyshire, England, to Dover, New Hampshire, with 
his wife, Katharine * (Reynolds), of Wales, about 
1635. 

" He is first mentioned as receiving 1643 a grant of 
forty acres of land on each side of the Fresh River at 
Cutchechoe . . . and also one platt of Marsh above 
Cntchechoe great Marsh, that the brook that runs out 
of the river runs through, first discovered by Richard 
Walderne, Edward Colcord, Edward Starbuck, and 
William Furber. 

" He had other grants at different times, one of 
Marsh in Great Bay in 1643, one of the Mill privilege 
at Cutchechoe 2nd Ealls (with Thomas Wiggins) and 
one of timber to ' accommodate ' in 1650 and various 
others. 

" Indeed Edward owned considerable land and was 
evidently a man of substance as to possessions as tradi- 
tion says he was in body. 

" He was a representative in 1643 and 1646, was an 
elder in the church and enjoyed various other tokens 
of respect given him by his fellow citizens. 

" In fact he might have lived comfortably at Dover 

* Some authorities give " Eunice." 



20 JEarly Settlers of Nantucket. 

and died in the midst of his family, respected and con- 
tented but that he embraced Baptist sentiments." * 

In " Provincial Papers of New Hampshire/' we find 
the following: 

"Oct. 18, 1648. — The Court being informed of 
great misdemeanor Committed by Edward Starbuck of 
Dover with profession of Anabatism for which he is to 
be proceeded against at the next Court of Assistants if 
evidence can be prepared by that time & it being very 
farre for witnesses to travill to Boston at that season 
of the year, It is therefore ordered by this Court that 
the Secretary shall give Commission to Capt. Thomas 
Wiggan & Mr Edw. Smyth to send for such persons 
as they shall have notice of which are able to testify 
in the sd. cause & to take their testimony uppon oath 
& certifie the same to the secretary so soon as may be, 
that further proceedings may be therein, if the cause 
shall so require." 

It is not to be wondered at that Edward Starbuck 
was quite ready to leave Dover under existing condi- 
tions. He was fifty-five years of age Avhen he joined 
Thomas Macy in his voyage from Salisbury to ISTan- 
tucket; he spent the winter there and in the spring 
returned to Dover for his family, who accompanied 
him to the island excepting his daughters Sarah (Aus- 
tin) and Abigail (Coffin), who had married and settled 
in Dover. " Dover lost a good citizen " and IsTantucket 
gained a much respected one; "he was a leading man 
on the Island and at one time a Magistrate ; " * he is 
described as " courageous and persevering." 

* N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. viii., p. 68. 



Edward Starbuck. 21 

In " Landmarks in Ancient Dover " mention is made 
of Starbuck's Brook in 1701 as a boundary of property 
which Peter Coffin (son-in-law of Edward Starbuck) 
conveyed to John Ham. Starbuck's Marsh was granted 
to Elder Starbuck August 30, 1643, and Starbuck's 
Point and Marsh, now called Fabyan's Point, were 
granted to Edward Starbuck in 1643, and are again 
mentioned in 1662, 1702, and 1716 in conveyance of 
property, since Avhich time the usual desire to change 
ancient names has destroyed what might be valuable 
historical landmarks. 

One son only lived to perpetuate the name, — ISTa- 
thaniel, who married Mary (daughter of Tristram 
CofSn), the ancestor of all American Starbucks. 

Edward Starbuck died in 1690. 

Other children of Edward Starbuck and Katharine 
Reynolds were: 

Jethro, who died at the age of twelve. 

Sarah, who married, first, William Story; second, 
Joseph Austin; third, Humphrey Varney (as second 
wife). 

Dorcas, who married William Gayer. 

Abigail, who married Peter Coffin. 

Esther, who married Humphrey Varney (as first 
wife). 

The original of the following conveyance of property 
from Edward Starbuck to his son, ISTathaniel Starbuck, 
is in the rooms of the Historical Society of Nantucket : 

" To all Chriftian peopole to whome this writing 
fhall Come, I, Edward ftarbuck, fend gretting. 

" Know ye that I, the said Edward ftarbuck, as well 



22 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

for the Indemnity, discharg and faving harmlefs my 
sonn Nathaniell ftarbiick his heirs Executors and ad- 
miniftrators and Every of them, and from all maner of 
Bond, and writtings obligatory what fo ever whare^'* 
the faid Nathaniell Starbuck is and Standeth bond for 
me the faid Edward ftarbuck in any sum or sums of 
money to any perfon or perfons what so ever as aKo for 
divers other good causes and confiderations me heare 
vnto Espeafially moving, have given, granted Bargained 
and sold & Confirmed and by this prefents doe give 
grant. Bargain, fell and Confirm vnto the faid Ka- 
thaniell Starbuck al and fingular my goods & Chattells 
what f o ever, as well real as perfonall of what ever kind 
natuer quallity or Condition fo ever and to be in what 
plase or plasis the fame fhal or may be found as well 
in my owne Costody or poffefsion of any other perfon 
or perfons what fo ever to have and to hold all and 
fingular, the faid goods and Chattells, and al other 
premifes with the appurtenansis to the a fore fd- ISTa- 
thanell ftarbuck his heirs. Executors, Admineftrators 
and af signes to his and there proper vf e & be hoof e for 
ever, and I, Edward Starbuck have dilevered vnto the 
f d l^athanell Starbuck one baffon * a part for the whole 
at the day of the Infeolling of this prefents and to the 
true performance where of I have heare vnto fet my 

* In all such bills of sale previous to 1700 some object was 
delivered to the buyer to bind the bargain; to-day a sum of 
money is advanced as a " part for the whole." 

In transfers of real estate the usual form was by " turf or 
twig, a part for the whole." 

The Edward Starbuck transfer included household goods, and 
some household utensil was made to do duty as security; basson 
was the old spelling for basin. 



Edward Starbuck. 23 

hand feall this eighteenth day of marsh one thoufand 
fix hundred eighty five. 

" Edward fTAEBUCK. (Seal.)" 

Nathaniel Starbuck was a wealthy man for his times, 
and the supposition * is that he had given bonds for his 
father in some business transaction, and that this bill 
of sale was given as security. 

Miss Susan E. Brock, curator of the Nantucket His- 
torical Society, says there is scarcely a doubt that the 
deed in their possession is an original paper, and in 
reference to it she quotes from Mr. Henry Worth as 
follows: '' Mr. Worth has examined it, and assures me 
that it is authentic without a doubt. He knew and 
recognized all the signatures, and said it would be im- 
possible for them to be copied so perfectly as to deceive 
anyone who was familiar with them, especially that of 
Edward Starbuck himself." 

* Edward Starbuck's daughters were well married and 
comfortably settled, and it is not improbable that he made the 
above-named conveyance in pursuance of the old English plan of 
conveying all property to the eldest son, to him who would per- 
petuate the name. 

Note. — The name Starbuck is from the Norse, and signifies 
great or grand. 



CHAPTEK IV. 

TKISTEAM COFFIN. 

So MUCH information concerning Tristram Coffin has 
been developed and published in connection mth the 
Coffin Reunion at jSTantucket in 1881, that a very brief 
sketch is sufficient here. 

He was so important in the early history of the set- 
tlement that at the risk of repeating much that has 
already been ^^Titten, some notice of him and his inter- 
esting family will not be out of place. 

Tristram Coffin, the founder of the family line of 
Coffins in America, signed his name " Coffyn." 

He was born in Brixton, Devonshire, England, in 
1605. He married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert 
Stevens, of Brixton. 

In 1642 he came to America with his family and his 
widowed mother Joan, and resided first at IsTewbury, 
later at Haverhill and Salisbury, until 1660, when he 
settled at Nantucket. 

The first of the name of whom there is any record is 
Sir Richard Coffin, who removed from ISTormandy to 

Note. — Coffin is a word of Hebrew origin signifying a small basket. 

In the ' ' Century Dictionary ' ' may be found various meanings 

for the word, but in most cases it represents a receptacle of some 

kind. 

In Wyclif s translation of the Bible, Mark 6 : 43, may be found : 
"And thei token the relifs of broken metis twelve coffinsful and of 

the fisches." 



A-...AV.rA 



PortledgCy The Coffin Manor House. 

F.-ngland. 



Tristram Coffin. 25 

England in 1066; he entered the English army, had 
lands granted to him, and was knighted by the king. 

Erom Prince's " Worthies of Devonshire " we learn 
that " the Ancient family of the name settled at Port- 
ledge by the seaside in the Parish of Alwington five 
miles from Biddeford and flourished there from the 
Conquest, and that from the time of King Henry the 
First unto the age of King Edward the Second " for 
two hundred years each successive heir of this family 
bore the name of Richard. 

Within a short distance of Fallaise, a town of ISTor- 
mandy, stands the old chateau of Cortiton, once the 
home of the Norman Coffins. 

The last Miss Cofiin married a Le Clerc late in the 
eighteenth century, since which time the Le Clerc 
family has occupied the ISTorman estates. When last 
visited, the chateau, though ancient, was in good repair. 

Members of the family are mentioned in history 
often associated with royalty from 1066 to the latter 
part of the sixteenth century, since which time the 
lines of descent are complete. 

Tristram lived at Northam,* near Capaum Pond, 
l^antucket, and died Tenth month 2d, 1681, aged 
seventy-six years. 

He was the first chief magistrate of N^antucket. The 

Coffin also appears to have been at one time synonymous with 
coffer; there are occasional records where the cofferer was a 
treasurer, an official servant in charge of a receptacle in which 
valuables and money were placed for transportation from place 
to place. 

In Bowditch's " Suffolk Surnames " the name Tristram is 
epoken of as having been a surname. 

* Northam was the first name of Dover, New Hampshire. 



26 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

f oUomng is a copy of his commission, taken from Mr. 
F. B. Hough's book, compiled from, official records at 
Albany. 

' *" Commiffion Granted to Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senr., 
to he Chiife Magiftrate hi and over the IJlands of 
Nantuckett and TuchoMuchett. ' ' — [^Deeds III. , 6^, 
Secretary'' s Office, Albany, New York.'\ 

" Francis Lovelace, Esq., &c. : Whereas upon Ad- 
drefs made unto mee by Mr, Triftram Coffin and Mr. 
Thomas Macy on Y behalfe of themf elves and y^ reft 
of y® Inhabitants of Nantuckett Ifland concerning y® 
Manno"" and Method of Governmn* to be ufed among^ 
themfelves, and having by y'^ Advice of my Councell 
pitcht upon a way for them; That is to fay That they 
be Governed by a Person as Chief e Magiftrate, and tveo 
Affiftants, y^ former to be nominated by myfelfe, y® 
other to bee chof en and confirmed by y^ Inhabitants as 
in y^ Inftructions fent unto them is more particularly 
Sett forth. And having conceived a good Opinion of 
y^ ffitnefs and capacity of Mr. Triftram Coffin to be y^ 
p'^sent Chiefe Magiftrate to manage AfFayres w*^ y^ 
Ayd and good Advice of y^ Affiftants in y^ Islands of 
Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett, I have thought fitt to 
ISTominate, Constitute, and Appoint and by these 
P''fents doe hereby jSTominate Constitute and Appoint 
Mr. Triftram Coffin to be Chiefe Magiftrate of y® faid 
Iflands of l^antuckett and Tuckanuckett. In y^ Man- 
agem* of w^*^ faid Employm*, hee is to ufe his beft Skill 
and Endeavour to p'^ferve his Ma*'*"^ Peace, and to keep 
y® Inhabitants in good Ord"". And all Persons are 
hereby required to give y^ faid Mr. Tristram Coffin fuch 



..v>rA 



Elrzabeth, widow of Richard Coffk, Es(^. 



Tristram Coffin. 27 

Eefpect and Obedience as belongs to a Person invefted 
by commiffion from Authority of his Royall Highnefs 
in y® Place and Employm* of a Chief Magistrate in y® 
Iflands aiorefaid. And hee is duely to obferve the 
Orders and Inftructions w'^*' are already given forth for 
y^ well governing of y^ Place, or fuch others as from 
Time to Time fhall hereafter bee given by mee: And 
for whatfoever y® faidMr.Triftram Coffin fhall lawfully 
Act or Doe in Profecution of y® Premifes, This is my 
Commiffion w'^^ is to bee of iforce untill y^ 13*^ day of 
October, which shall bee in ye Yeare of our Lord 1672, 
when a new magiftrate is to enter into the Employm* 
fhall bee his sufficient Warrant and Difcharge. 

" Given under my Hand and Seal at fforte James in 
New Yorke, this 29"^ day of June in y^ 22^ Yeare of 
his Ma*^^' Keigne, Annoq. Dni. 1671. 

"Fkan: Lovelace." 



The following is a list of children of Tristram 
Coffin: 

Hon. Petek Coffin was born in England in 1631; 
he married Abigail Starbuck, daughter of Edward 
and Katharine Starbuck, of Dover, New Hampshire. 
He was one of the original purchasers of Nantucket, 
but resided there for a short time only. He was made 
a freeman in 1666 at Dover. 

In 1675 he was a lieutenant on service in King 
Philip's War. In 1672-73 and again in 1679 he was 
a representative in the legislative branch. In 1690 he 
removed to Exeter, New Hampshire. From 1692 to 
1714 he was at different times associate justice and 



28 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
shire, and a member of the Governor's Council He 
died at Exeter, March 21, 1Y15. 

Tristkam Coffin, Jr., was born in England in 1632. 
He married in Newbury, Massachusetts, March 2, 
1652, Judith Somerby, widow of Henry Somerby and 
daughter of Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf. He was 
made freeman April 29, 1668, and died in Newbury, 
Eebruary -1, 1704, aged seventy-two. He was a mer- 
chant tailor and filled many positions of trust. He 
lived in the Coffin mansion in Newbury, which still 
continues in the family; whether he or his wife's 
former husband built it is uncertain. 

It is said that Tristram Coffin, Sr., lived in this old 
mansion before he removed to Nantucket. 

Elizabeth Coffin was born in England about 1634- 
35; and married in Newbury, November 13, 1651, Cap- 
tain Stephen Greenleaf, son of Edmund Greenleaf; she 
died at Newbury, November 19, 1678. 

James Coffin was born in England, August 12, 
1640. He married, December 3, 1663, Mary, daughter 
of John and Abigail Severance, of Salisbury, Massa- 
chusetts, and died at Nantucket, July 28, 1720, aged 
eighty years. He was one of the associate proprietors, 
and filled several important offices at Nantucket, 
among them judge of Probate Court, and is said to have 
been the first judge of probate on the island, appointed 
in 1680.* 

* Massachusetts Civil List, pp. 112-114. 



The Tristram Coffin Houses 

Neziiburyport, Massafhusetts. 



Dresser ift ^'T'mfrath Coffin '' "House, 

■ \f:< buryport, Massachusett!. 



Tristram Coffin, 29 

John and Deborah, who died in infancy. 

Mary Coffin, seventh child of Tristram Coffin, Sr., 
was born in Haverhill, February 20, 1645. She was 
married in 1662, at the age of seventeen, to Nathaniel, 
son of Edward and Katharine (Reynolds) Starbuck. 

The first book of births, marriages, and deaths for 
the town of Sherburne (page 11) says " Mary Starbuck 
departed this Liffe y" 13 day of y'^O^l'TlT in y^ 74 
year of her age and was decently buried in Friends 
burying ground." Her husband, Nathaniel Starbuck, 
Sr., died in 1719. 

She was a remarkable woman, anticipating by two 
centuries the advanced views of women of to-day. She 
took an active part in town debates, usually opening 
her remarks with " My husband and I, having consid- 
ered the subject, think, etc." 

In 1701, at the age of fifty-six, she became interested 
in the religious faith of the Friends, and held meetings 
■at her house. She was a minister in the Society, as 
were also several of her children, her grandsons Elihu 
and Nathaniel Coleman, and her granddaughter Pris- 
cilla Bunker. 

Elihu Coleman published one of the earliest protests 
against slavery in New England. 

Mary Starbuck was " as distinguished in her domestic 
economy as she was celebrated as a preacher." 

The following copy of a letter from Mary Starbuck 
to her granddaughter Eliza Gorham, who had suffered 
loss by fire, gives evidence of her interest in domestic 
matters. 



30 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

" Nantucket I7th of 1st mo 1714. 

" Deae Child E. G. 

" These few lines may certify thee that thou art 
often in my remembrance, with thy dear husband and 
children, wdth breathings to the Lord for you, that 
you may find rest in all your visitations and trials; 
As also that there is a trunk filled with goods which is 
intended to be put on Eben Stewards vessel, in which 
are several small tokens from thy friends which thou 
may particularly see by the little invoices here enclosed, 
and by some other marks that are upon the things. 

" Thy Aunt Dorcas in a new pair of osnaburg sheets, 
thy Aunt Dinah in a pair of blankets. Thy Grandfather 
intends to send thee a bbl. of mutton, but it is not all 
his own, for Cousin James Coffin sent hither 17 pieces. 
Cousin James said he intended to send thee two or 
three bushels of corn. 

" There is likewise sent from our women's meeting 
£7 which thy uncle Jethro said he would give an order 
for, for thee to take to Boston. 

'' Sister James told me she intended to send thee two 
bushels of corn and some wool and likewise that Jus- 
tice Worth said he would send thee some corn. 

" More meat and corn will be sent v/hich -wdll be in 
greater quantities, which thy uncle Jethro Starbuck 
will give thee an acct. of or to thy husband. 

" I should have been glad if he had come over with 
Steward, but I hope we shall see him this summer, if 
not both of you. 

" So with my kind love to thee and thy husband, 
children and to all our frds. committing you to the pro- 



Tristram Coffin. 31 

tection of tlie Almighty who is the wise disposer of all 
things and remain thy affectionate Grandmother 

" Mary Starbuck. 

" Thy Grandfather's love to you all and Uncle Bar- 
nabas's, Susanna is well and her love to you also." 

!N^athaniel Starbuck was by no means a man of small 
ability, but his wife seems to have taken the lead in 
most matters. 

Lieutenant John Coffin was born at Haverhill, 
October 30, 1647; he married Deborah, daughter of 
Joseph and Sarah (Starbuck) Austin. After his father's 
death he removed to Martha's Vineyard, and died there 
September 5, 1711. 

Authority for his commission as lieutenant of militia 
will be found in Part First of Vol. XXXIV., and on 
page 21 of the Xew York Colonial Manuscripts in the 
custody of the Regents of the University in the State 
Library at Albany, and recorded by the Secretary of 
the Province of ISTew York among memoranda of sev- 
eral military commissions, directed by Governor 
Thomas Dongan to be issued, and reads thus: 

" Mr. John Coffin a Commission to be Lieu, of said 
Company at ]^antucket June 5*^ 1684 all the first 
forme." 

Stephen Coffin was born at ISTewbury, May 10, 
1652. He married Mary, daughter of George and Jane 



32 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

(Godfrey) Bunker, about 1668, and died at Nantucket 
November 14, 1734. 

He remained upon his father's estate, and to him 
■was given the management of his father's business, on 
agreement " to be helpful to his parents in their old 
age." 

It is not surprising that the descendants of Tristram 
Coffin still bearing the name are so numerous when 
we find that of his nine children five out of the seven 
who married were sons; that Peter had nine children, 
that Tristram, Jr., had ten children and left one hun- 
dred and seventy-seven descendants, that James had 
fourteen children, that Lieutenant John had eleven 
children, and that Stephen had ten. 

The two daughters, Mary Starbuck and Elizabeth 
Greenleaf, each had ten cliildren, adding in two cen- 
turies many more descendants to the list, although not 
of the name. 

The Nantucket Inquirer of July 22, 1826, says, 
' ' The House * in which Tristram Coffin resided is still 
standing, and has been the residence of seven genera- 
tions of the same name. 

" The names of more than twelve thousand descend- 
ants of Tristram Coffin can be ascertained, some of 
whom are found in England, in all the British Domin- 
ions and in every state in the Union." 

* At Newbury. 

Note. — Savage says, " Twenty-six of Tristram's descendants 
graduated in 1828 at New England colleges, fifteen at Harvard 
alone." 



Tristram Coffin. 33 

The above was written by Joshua Coffin,* Newbury- 
port, and is signed " Jam satis." 

The following copies of the wills of the father, 
grandfather and great-uncle of the emigrant Tristram 
Coffin were extracted from the original records in Eng- 
land for Mr. C. Howard Colket, of Philadelphia, and by 
his courtesy placed at the disposal of the writer, and we 
believe are now for the first time published in full in 
America : 

Extracted from the District Registry Attached to the 

Prolate Division of the High Court of 

Justice at Exeter. 

IN THE ARCHDEACONRY COURT OF TOTNES. 

In the name of God Amen the twelveth day of Sep- 
tember in the eleaventh yeere of the Raigne of our Sov- 
raigne Lord James by the grace of God of England 
Frannce and Ireland and in the forty and seaventh 
yeere of Scotland Kinge Def end"" of the Fayth &c Anno 
Dni 1613 I Nicholas Coffyn of Buttlers w*^ in the pysh 
of Brixton in the Countye of Devon Husbandman 
beinge weake of bodye but pf ect in minde thankes bee 
therefore given to Allmightie God do make this my last 

* Joshua CofHu, antiquarian and historian, descended from 
Joshua Coffins, son of Joseph*, Nathaniels, Tristram, Jr.2, Tris- 
tram Coffini. 

Joshua^ was born in Newbury December 30, 1702, married July 
15, 1725, Margaret Morse, dau. Benjamin Morse, also of Newbury. 
Joshuas died Sept. 12, 1773. The children of Joshuas and Mar- 
garet (Morse) were Sarah, Enoch, Mary and Joshuas, born Jan. 
9, 1731, married January 21, 1775, Sarah Bartlett; died March 
30, 1774.— N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., Vol. xxiv., p. 313. (Edition 
1890.) 



34 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Will and Testam* contayning my whole minde and in- 
tent in mann'" and forme following First I do w*** a free 
heart and willing minde render and give againe into the 
hands of my Lord God and Maker my Soule w'^^ he of 
his Fatherly Goodness gave unto me nothing doubting 
but that he will receive it amonge his heavenly Angels 
And my body I bequeath to Christian buriall when & 
where it shall please God to appoint Itm I give and 
bequeath to Ann Meader the Daughf of Eliner Header 
five shillings Itm I give and bequeath to Peter Cof- 
fyn my eldest Sonne my greatest brasse pann and my 
minde is that my Wief shall have the use thereof dur- 
ing her lief. Itm I give & bequeath to Tristram Coffyn 
my Sonnes Sonne one yearling bollock Itm I give & 
bequeath to Johun Coffyn my Sonnes Daughf one 
sheepe Itm I give and bequeath to every of my 
God-children twelve pence apeece Itm I give & 
bequeath to Johan Coffyn my Wief one bay nag 
w'^^ we use to call Rowse Itm I give bequeath 
will and devise unto Mcholas Coffyn my Sonne 
All such right terme of yeeres intrest and de- 
mand as I myself my Executors or Assignes now have 
or here after may or ought to have of & in one tenem* 
with his app'^tennce sett lying and being in Plimton 
Earle in the Countye of Devon aforesaid wherein one 

There must have been a generation between Joshuao and the 
historian, as he was born in the old Coffin Mansion in Newbury- 
port Oct. 12, 1792; he died June 24, 1864. 

He was one of the twelve persons who, together with William 
Lloyd Garrison and others, formed the first anti-slavery society 
in New England. He was for many years a teacher, and num- 
bered among his pupils men who attained high position in after 
years. 



Tristram Coffin. 35 

Thomas Spurwill there now dwelleth togith' three 
closes or pcells of land thereunto belonging whereof the 
first is called or knowen by the name of Fortie Acres 
the second WalKord als Woodpke and the third the 
Meadow belowe the waie all w*^^ recited p'misses I have 
and hold of and by the demise & grante of Will™ Moul- 
ton of Plimton Earle aforesaide Gent. To have & to 
hold All & singiiler the said tenem' & three closes of 
land with th appurtennce unto the said Nicholas Coffyn 
his Execuf^ administrators and assignes and to every of 
them imediatly from and after my death for and during 
all such time & tearme of yeeres as shall be then to 
com and unexpired of and in the same Tenem* & closes 
of land by and under the yeerly rents suits & services 
and all other covenants and condicons which I myself 
myne Execuf^ administrators and assignes or any of us 
stand chargeable for to yeeld pay and prforme for the 
same during the tearme therein that shall be to come 
after my death And in consideracon hereof my Will 
and intent is that my said Son Nicholas Coffyn shall 
within one whole yeere after my decease well & truely 
content and paie unto my Daugh' Ann Coffyn thirteene 
pounds sixe shillings and eight pence of lawfull money 
of England w^^ said some of XIII* VP VIII<* I do 
hereby give and bequeath unto my said Daugh*" Ann 
Coffyn And likewise the said Nicholas my Sonne shall 
after my decease paie unto my Sonne John Coffyn eight 
shillings yeerely during there naturall lives or as longe 
as they two shall live togither. The residue of all my 
goods and chatties moveable and unmoveable as well 
quickstuffe & corne as implem*^ of household & all 
other goods of what quality soever the same bee not be- 



36 Early Setilers of Nantucket. 

fore by these presents given nor bequeathed I give & 
bequeathe to the foresaid Nicholas Coffyn & John Cof- 
fyn my Sonnes whome I make & ordaine to be my ioynt 
Executors of this my last Will & Testam* Provided 
allwaies that my Wief shall have the bed steed bedd & 
bedd clothes thereunto belonging wherein I do usually 
lie one brasse pann & one brasse crock to use the same 
duringe her lief and after her decease the same shall 
remaine to my said Executors And I do heereby ap- 
pointe & entreat my well beloved Eriends Bartholo- 
mew Clevanger & Nicholas Edwards to bee the over- 
seeres of this my said last Will & Testam* praying them 
to bee an aide to myne Executors herein & to see the 
same faythfully and truely prformed And I do revo^ke 
& annull all & every other & former Wills and Testam*^ 
legacies & bequeaths by me formerly made pronoun- 
cing this to be my p^'sent last Will & Testam* In wittnes 
whereof I the said Nicholas Coffyn have hereunto sett 
my hand & scale yeven the dale and yeere first above 
written in the presence of those whose names are here- 
under written. — Sealed & signed in the presence of us 

viz. 

Teste me — Kobto Bichford. 



The signe of Nicholas Edwards. 

This Will was proved on the third day of November 
1613 by the Executors. 

In the name of God Amen the VI*'^ day of Novem- 
ber in the year of our Lord God 1601. I Tristram 
Coffing of Butlers in the Pish of Brixton being sick of 
body but pfect of remembrance thankes be geven unto 
Almighty God do make this my last AVill and Testa- 



Trisiram Coffin. 37 

ment in manner and form following that is to saye 
First I geve and bequeath my Soule unto Almighty 
God my Maker and Jesus Christ my Redeemer through 
whose death & passion I hope to be saved First I geve 
& bequeath unto the poore men box of Brixon V^ Item 
I geve & bequeath to Johan Coffing the Daughter of 
Nicolas Coffing II brass pannes the greatest & the lest 
and on coverlett of draught work Item I geve and be- 
queath unto Tristram Coffing the Sonne of Philip Coffing 
forty shillings Item I geve and bequeth unto Philip 
Coffing XX^ Item I give unto Richard and Johan Cof- 
fing the children of Lionell Coffing VI« VHP Item I 
geve to the children of Thomas Coffing each of them 
IIP 1111** Item I geve more to Johan Coffing the 
Daughter of Nicolas Coffing V* Item I geve to An 
Coffing the Daughter of Xicolas Coffing the right and 
titell of such ground as I have from Robert Chember 
or eles the som of X^ more I geve to the sayd An II 
brass pannes and on coverlett Item I geve to foure 
children of Nicolas Meader each of them III^ IIII*^ 
Item I geve to John Coffing the Sone of Nicolas Cof- 
fing one bullock of the age of on year the resydue of my 
goodes & cattells movable or immoveable I geve and 
bequeath to Nicolas Coffing the Sone of Nicolas Coffing 
whome I make to be my whole Executor to pay my 
debts and to discharg my Legacies as far as bill bond 
or speciallitie is to shewe moreover I doe appoint Nico- 
las Coffing and James Coule to be my overseers to see 

Will and Testament to be pf ormed. 

This Will was proved on the 16th day of October 
1602 by Nicholas Coffine the Father of Nicholas Cof- 
fine a minor the Executor, during his minority. 



38 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

In the name of God, Amen, y^ 21*'' day of December 
in y^ third yeare of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord 
Charles of Greate Britaine France and Ireland Kinge 
Defender of y^ Faith &c. I Peter Coffyn of the Parish 
of Brixton in y^ County of Devon being sicke of body 
but in perfect minde and memory (thankes be to God) 
doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament 
in manner and forme followinge Impr^ I give and be- 
queath my Soule to Allmighty God my Maker and Re- 
deemer and my body to the Earth to be decently buried. 
Item I give and bequeath to y^ poore people of the Par- 
ish of Brixton XX^ in money to be delivred unto them 
according to the discretion of my Executrix hereafter 
mentioned. Item I give and bequeath unto Tristri"am 
Coffyn my Sonne one feather bedd pformed my best 
brasen panne and my best brasen crocke Item I give 
and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn my Wife y^ issues 
pfitts and comodities of all my lands tenements & hered- 
itaments w*^ in y^ sayd Parish of Brixton dureing her 
widdowhood she yeelding & payinge therefor yearly 
unto the sayd Tristriam my Sonne his heirs and assignes 
the summe of Fifty shillings of lawfull English money 
at y^ four most usual feasts of the year and also suffi- 
cient meat drinke & clothes and convenient lodgings 
unto y^ sayd Tristriam according to his degree and call- 
inge dureing her Widdowhood onely And if it happen 
y^ sayd yearly rent of Fifty shillings or any part there- 
of to be behinde and unpayd that then and from thence- 
forth itt may and shall be lawfull to and for the sayd 
Tristriam Coffyn his heirs and assignes into all and sin- 
gular the said p'misses to enter and distraine and the 
distress so there taken from thence to lead drive carry 



Tristram Coffin. 39 

away & empound and impound to detaine and keepe 
untill j^ sayd rent of Fifty shillings with the arrearages 
of the same (if any bee) shall bee to him or them fully 
answered and payd. And further it is my Will that if 
the sayd Johan my Wife shall happen to marry that she 
shall immediately thereupon loose all y^ pfitts comodi- 
ties and right of that one tenement called Silferhey 
lying in Butlers in y^ parish of Brixton aforesayd which 
dureing her Widdowhood by my Will she is to have and 
y^ same to redound & be immediately in the possession 
of my Sonne Tristriam his heirs and assignes Item I 
doe give and bequeath unto my Sonne Tristriam All my 
lands rents reversions services & hereditamts with the 
appurtenances whatsoever sett lying & being w**^ in the 
sayd Parish of Brixton or elsewhere w*^ in y^ sayd 
County of Devon To have and to hold y* same and 
every part and parcel thereof to y^ sayd Tristriam Cof- 
fyn his heirs and assignes for ever to y® only use pfitt & 
behoof of the said Tristriam Coffyn his heirs and as- 
signes to be holden of the cheife Lord and Lords of the 
Fee thereof by the rents and services therefor yearly 
due and payable and my Will farther is that if the said 
Tristriam my Sonne shall chance to dy without an heir 
male lawfully begotten or to be begotten of his body 
that then all the prmisses last mentioned & given to 
him shall redound unto John Coffyn my Sonne his heirs 
and assigns accordingly and in y^ same manner that it 
should to y* said Tristriam my Sonne Item I doe give 
and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn Deborah Coffyn Eu- 
nice Coffyn and Mary Coffyn my four Daughters to 
each of them severally Thirty pounds in money that is 
to say amongst them CXX^ to bee payd when they 



40 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

or each of them severally shall be of the full age of 
twentie years Itm I give and bequeath unto John Cof- 
fyn my Sonne Fourty pounds in money to be payd him 
when hee shall be of the age of twenty years Item I 
give and bequeath unto the child of my Wife now goeth 
withal the sume of Thirty pounds in money to be payd 
when he or she shall be of the age of twentie years. 
Provided always & my minde & will is that if either 
Johan Coffyn Deborah Coffyn Eunice Coffyn Mary Cof- 
fyn John Coffyn or y^ child ray Wife goeth withal 
happen to dy before he she or they doe come to y^ age 
of twenty years that then his her or their portion or 
portions shall be equally divided amongst the survivors 
Item All y^ rest of my goods chattels and cattells nor 
before given nor bequeathed I doe give and bequeath 
unto Johan Coffyn my Wife whome I make constitute 
and ordaine my full and whole Executrix of this my last 
Will and Testament And for y^ better pformance here- 
of I doe intreat my well beloved in Christ my brother 
in law Phillip A vent and my Brother Nichas Coffyn to 
be y® Overseers to see this my last Will & Testament 
pformed. 

Arthure Durant Phillip Avent. 

Proved on the thirteenth day of March 1627 by the 
Executrix. 



Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin^ Baronet. 



CHAPTER V. 

ADMIRAL SIB ISAAC COFFIN, BARONET. 

The following facts have been abridged from an ac- 
count published in the Boston Herald within a few 
years. 

On the easterly side of Harrison Avenue just above 
Kneeland Street, Boston, a trifle back from the avenue, 
stands a ganibrel-roof wooden structure. This build- 
ing was moved from its original site, corner of Beach 
Street and Oxford Place, to its present location nearly 
half a century ago. It was the residence of JSTathaniel 
Coffin, one of the foremost adherents of King George, 
who at one time held the responsible position of col- 
lector of his Majesty's customs for the port of Boston. 
The house must have been built as early as 1750, and 
it was, on May 16, 1759, the birthplace of Isaac Coffin, 
who afterwards rose to be an admiral in the British 
navy. In the same house was born his brother John, 
who became major-general in the British army. 

Sir Isaac retained an affection for the place of his 
birth, and coming from JSTantucket stock he invested 
in 1827 the sum of £2500 in English funds for the es- 
tablishment of a school on that island to be known as 
the " Coffin School." 

Drake, in his " Old Landmarks of Boston," says that 
of this fund " the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston were 
made trustees for the distribution of the annual inter- 



42 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

est among five of the most deserving boys and as many 
girls of that school." 

King George III., with whom Sir Isaac was a great 
favorite, gave him a grant of the Island of Magdalen 
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and in after years it was 
proposed to create him Earl of Magdalen; this propo- 
sition fell through, and the alleged reason was, that in 
establishing the Coffin School in ^STantncket he was 
creating sailors who in mature age might fight against 
the crown. 

At the present time the old house in Boston is used 
for manufacturing purposes. 

Sir Isaac Coffin was the fifth generation in descent 
from Tristram, Sr., his father being Nathaniel, who 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Barnes, of 
Boston. Nathaniel * was the son of William, who was 
the son of Nathaniel, who was the son of James, who 
was the son of Tristram Coffin, Sr. 

The following extracts from an English biographical 
work on the life of Admiral Coffin are abridged from 
manuscript of the late Mr. George Howland Folger. 
This manuscript is now the property of the Historical 
Society of Nantucket. 

Sir Isaac entered the navy in 1Y73, under the patron- 
age of Admiral John Montague; he served as midship- 
man on board several ships, and in 1778 obtained a 
lieutenancy. In July, 1781, he was promoted to the 
rank of comjnander, and was in the " splendid battle " 
of April 12, 1782, which resulted in the capture of the 

* N. E. Hist, and Gen. Eeg., Vol. xxiv., p. 306, says Nathaniel 
Coffin (son of William) graduated from Harvard College in 1744, 
died in New York in 1780. 



Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet. 43 

celebrated Comte de Grasse. In 1795, as commission- 
er, be resided in Corsica, wbere be remained until tbe 
evacuation of tbe island in 1796; bere be twice narrow- 
ly escaped assassination. After passing tbrougb vari- 
ous fortunes of war, be was, in 1804, made rear-admi- 
ral. Soon after tbis be was raised to the dignity of 
baronet. In 1808 be was promoted to tbe position of 
vice-admiral, and in 1814 became full admiral, and in 
the general election in 1818 was chosen as representa- 
tive to Parliament for the borough of Ilchester. 

He married, in 1811, at the age of jfifty-two, Eliza- 
beth Brown Greenly, only daughter of T. Greenly, 
Esq. There were no children. 

He crossed tbe Atlantic not less than thirty-one 
times, a circumstance more remarkable in tbe early 
part of the century than at present. 

Tbe following incident in his life, related by a rela- 
tive, is somewhat amusing when told of one valiant in 
arms : 

" Somewhere about 1824 the Admiral was in Phila- 
delphia at tlie residence of bis kinswoman, Anna (Fol- 
ger) Coffin, widow of Thomas Coffin. To the company 
gathered to meet him be told that, being in command 
of a ship or fleet in tbe Pacific, an American whaler 
was spoken. Tbe Admiral was curious to see the tak- 
ing of a whale, and accordingly went on board the 
American vessel. Soon a whale was sighted; a boat was 
lowered, and tbe Admiral took bis seat with tbe crew; 
tbe harpoon was thrown, and then came tbe rush of 
tbe boat tbrougb the water, which was walled on each 
side. 

"'Cut tbe rope!' cried the Admiral. ' Xo, no;' 



44 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

was the reply of the leader of the crew ; ' you are not 
in command of this craft.' 

" So Sir Isaac had to summon up what •nerve he 
could and await his fate; he closed his story by saying 
he would infinitely rather have been at close quarters 
with a French seventy-four." 

In the Nantucket Inquirer of September 2, 1826, 
may be found the following, copied from a Boston 
paper: 

" According to previous appointment, the annual vis- 
itation of the public schools was attended on Wednes- 
day last by the parents and friends of the pupils, and 
by several strangers of distinction. Admiral Coffin 
gave as a sentiment, ' The City of Boston.' 

" He was replied to by one of the committee: 

" ' Our venerable and respected guest. Admiral Cof- 
fin, a native of our city and an alumnus of our ancient 
Latin school, who, though separated from us, in times 
of political dissension was generous and kind to his 
countrymen, M^ho, amidst the honors and plaudits of a 
princely court, remembered ^vith affection the land of 
his birth, and still bears testimony to the excellence of 
our civil and literary institutions. 

" ' May honorable fame ever attend him, and may his 
declining years repose in health and peace.' " 

September 9, 1826. — " Honorary degree of M.A. 
was conferred on Admiral Sir Isaac Coflin at the annual 
commencement of Harvard Hniversity.'' 

In the l^antucket Inquirer of date September 16, 
1826, there is a notice of a \\s\i of Sir Isaac Coffin to 
!N'an tucket, during which he spoke with affection of his 
native city, and attributed " all his attainments and re- 



Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet. 45 

nown to principles of knowledge imbibed in the public 
schools of Boston." 

During his stay on the island he " visited principal 
places of resort, disregarded all court etiquette, and 
mingled freely with the inhabitants." 

He died at Cheltenham, England, in 1839, aged 
eighty years. 



CHAPTER VI. 

STEPHEN GEEENLEAF, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS FATHEK, 
EDMUND GREENLEAF. 

The Greenleaf family is supposed to have been of 
Huguenot origin; Edmund, the first of the name who 
came to America, was born * in the Parish of Brixham. 
He married Sarali Dole, and, with several children, 
was among the early settlers of " Newbury, or New- 
berry, now Newburyport.'' 

" Ould Newberry " was incorporated in 1635. In a 
list of first settlers to whom was granted " a house lot 
of at least four acres, with a suitable quantity of salt 
and fresh meadow," is found the name of Edmund 
Greenleaf.f 

Edmund Greenleaf was ordered to be ensign for 
Newbury in June, 1639. f 

Erom Colonial Eecords we learn that he was later 
made lieutenant, and removed to Boston. 

Captain Johnson styles Edmund Greenleaf " an an- 
cient and experienced lieutenant under Captain Ger- 
rish in 1644." 

The following is an extract from his will: 

"... my will is being according to God's will and re- 

* Hoyt says, page 183 : " The Greenleaf genealogy gives bap- 
tism of Edmund Greenleaf January 2, 1574. This would make 
him ninety-seven years of age when he died. Another authority 
gives, Edmund, born 1590." 

t James Edward Greenleaf s " Greenleaf Family." 



Stephen Greenleaf. 47 

vealed in his word, that wee must pay what we owe and 
live of the rest, unto whose rule the sons of men ought 
to frame their wills and actions therefore." This to 
show his correct principles. Another extract may be 
given, showing how absolute he considered his power 
over his wife, who evidently had a will of her own: 

"... Besides when I married my wife she brought 
me a silver bowl, a silver porringer, a silver spoon, she 
lent or gave tliem to her son-in-law, James Hill, with- 
out my consent." 

This will is dated December 25, 1668. 

Stephen Greenleaf, son of Edmund, was born about 
1628, and married, first: November 13, 1651, Elizabeth 
Cofiin, daughter of Tristram Coifin and Dionis Stevens; 
second: In 1679, Esther (Weare) Swett, widow of Cap- 
tain Benjamin Swett, and daughter of JSTathaniel Weare 
or Wire (early in I^ewbury, afterward of Nantucket, 
where he died March 1, 1681). 

Stephen Greenleaf was one of the original proprie- 
tors of Nantucket, and, authority says, a religious man. 

In " Greenleaf Family " we find the first mention of 
Stephen Greenleaf as ensign. May 11, 1670. August 
5, 1675, with others, he marched against the Indians in 
response to a call to the colonies from Swanzy, where 
shortly after " nine Indians were murdered," this be- 
ing the first blood shed in King Philip's War. 

In 1676 Stephen Greenleaf, with five others, was 
elected selectman, and in the same year was representa- 
tive to the General Court. 

In 1680 the " Town granted ensign Stephen Green- 
leaf permission to build a wharf." 



48 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

He was ensign in 1686 and captain in 1690. 

At a court held at Newbury in 1686, March 30, 
" David Pierce, Captain Thomas N^oyes and Lieutenant 
Stephen Greenleaf are commissioned to be Magistrates 
by the Court." 

" In the same year Lieutenant Stephen Greenleaf 
and Lieutenant Tristram Coffin, with others, are ap- 
pointed a committee on laying out and dividing wood- 
lands." 

ITovember 21, 1686, " deacon Nicholas Noyes, dea- 
con Robert Long and deacon Tristram Coffin were, at 
the request of the selectmen, chosen standing overseers 
of the poore for the town of Newbury." 

December 1, " Captain Daniel Pierce and Captain 
Stephen Greenleaf were added to the deacons as over- 
seers of the poore," and any three of them had power to 
act. 

May 6, 1689, " The Committee of Safety in Boston 
having desired us to send a man or men for consulting 
with them what may be best for the conservation of the 
peace of the country. Our inhabitants being met this 
6*^ day of May, 1689, have chosen Captain Thomas 
Noyes and lieutenant Stephen Greenleaf sen. for the 
end aforesaid." 

1690, Stephen Greenleaf, with nine others, was 
wrecked and drowned off Cape Breton. 

A military spirit appears to have been transmitted 
to the third generation, the following story having been 
told of Stephen Greenleaf, Jr.: 

March 5, 1696, Captain Greenleaf petitions the Gen- 
eral Court for compensation for repulsing an Indian 
raid, in which he was wounded in his side and wrist. 



Stephen Greenleaf. 49 

His petition was read and forty pounds voted to be 
paid him out of the treasury of the province. 

The house attacked by the Indians was John 
Brown's, and the following is the family tradition re- 
specting it: 

" The Indians had secreted themselves for sometime 
near the house, waiting for the absence of the male 
members of the family, who about three o'clock de- 
parted with a load of turnips. The Indians then rushed 
from their concealment, tomahawked a girl who was 
standing at the front door; another girl who had con- 
cealed herseK as long as the Indians remained, imme- 
diately after their departure gave the alarm." 

The coat which Captain Greenleaf wore in his pur- 
suit of the Indians is still preserved by his descendants, 
together with the bullet which was extracted from his 
wound. 

Note. — State Street in Newbury (now Newburyport) was for- 
merly Greenleaf's Lane. 



CHAPTER Vn. 

CHRISTOPHEK HUSSEY. 

Christopher Hussey was baptized in Dorking, Sur- 
rey, England, and was son of John Hussey and Mary 
Wood. 

This has been a tradition in the family, and is con- 
firmed by the follomng extract from a letter written 
in 1880 by a New Bedford member of the Hussey fam- 
ily: 

" I forgot to tell you about my visit to Dorking, 
where I went before leaving England. It is twenty- 
six miles from London, but took me an hour and a half 
by rail, but through a lovely country. 

" It is a beautiful old town. They say the country 
about there is considered among the most picturesque 
in England. 

" I went to the parish clerk ; he had gone out, and his 
sister thought perhaps the vicar might know the book. 
So I went there and was shown into his study, a lovely 
old house and a very pretty room in summer, but a 
fire-place too small to half warm it. 

" The vicar was a wonderfully handsome and gentle- 
manly person, who offered to do all he could for me, but 
said the clerk had the book. I at last found him, and 
we looked over it together. 

" As I knew the exact date of Christopher's birth, it 
did not take long, although the writing was the same 



Christopher Hussey. 51 

queer German text baud we saw at Hampton, which 
seemed to be the style then; but, strange to say, the 
book itself looked a hundred years younger than that, 
it had been kept so much more carefully, and was of 
parchment. 

" We found Christopher, son of John Hussey, was 
baptized 18th of February, 1599, and, looking back a 
few years, found John Hussey and Marie (Moor or 
Wood) (I could not make out which) were married De- 
cember 5th, 1593. Then John, son of John, baptized 
April 29th, 1594, and died I^ovember 8th, 1597. 
There is no other mention of any one of the name of 
Hussey that we could find in the book, and no person 
of that name is living there or has been known to live 
there. The vicar told me it was a Berkshire name, and 
John Hussey probably came there from some other 
place; and, as there seem to have been no other chil- 
dren that lived, no one of the name remains there. . . . 
All the English say it is not at all a common name; an 
' old family ' — but what family is not old ? " 

Note. — John Evelyn makes several interesting entries in his 
diary concerning the Hussey family, and, although his allusions 
to them are thirty-eight years after Christopher Hussey came 
to America, the fact that the shire named by Evelyn is the same 
in which John Hussey's family lived is significant. 

September 17, 1670, Evelyn says : " To visit Mr. Hussey, who, 
being near Wotton, lives in a sweet valley, deliciously watered." 

Again, 30th of August, 1G81: "From Wotton I went to see 
Mr. Hussey (at Sutton in Shere), who has a very pretty seat, 
well watered, near my brother's. 

" He is the neatest husband for curiously ordering his domestic 
and field accommodations, and what pertains to husbandry, that 
I have ever seen, as to his granaries, tackling tools, and utensils, 
ploughs, carts, stables, wood piles, wood house, even to hen 
roosts and hog troughs. 



63 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

When a young man Christopher Hussej spent some 
time in Holland, where he solicited in marriage The- 
odate, daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachelor, who gave 
his consent to their union on condition that they would 
come to America wdth him ; this condition was complied 
Avith, and they arrived in Boston in 1632 on the ship 
"William and Francis or William Francis. 

The fact that his eldest son Stephen Hussey was born 
in Lynn, and was the first child christened by Stephen 
Bachelor after the founding of the church, indicates 
that Christopher lived in Lynn with his father-in-law. 

He was an early settler of the town of !N"ewbury, 
and in 1636 was "chosen by papers" as one 
of the " seven men," as they were first called, 
then " townesmen," then " townesmen select," and 
finally " select men " as at present. 

" They were fully empowered of themselves to do 
what the tov^m had power to do, the reason whereof 
was the town judged it inconvenient and burdensome to 
be called together upon every occasion." 

In 1638 he, with his father-in-law, Eev. Stephen 

" Methought I saw old. Cato or Varro in him, all substantial, 
all in exact order." 

June loth, 1685 : " Mr. Hussey,* a young gentleman who made 
love to my late dear child, but whom she could not bring her- 
self to answer in affection, died of the same cruel disease,t for 
which 1 am extremely sorry, because he never enjoyed himself 
after my daughter's decease, nor was I averse to the match, 
could she have overcome her disinclination." 

February, 1695: "Our neighbor, Mr. Hussey, married a daugh- 
ter of my cousin, George Evelyn, of Nutfield." 



* Son of Peter Hussey, of Sutton in Shere, Surrey. 
•{• Small-pox. 



Christopher Hussey. 53 

Bachelor, and others, settled the town of Hampton, 
JSTew Hampshire, and in 1639 he was made Justice of 
the Peace, which office he held several years; he was 
also town clerk and one of the first deacons of the 
church. 

In 1659 he became one of the purchasers of Nan- 
tucket; subsequently he was a sea-captain. 

Orders were received from the king, September 18, 
1679, " to erect Xew Hampshire into a separate gov- 
ernment," under jurisdiction of a president and council 
to be appointed by himself; John Cutts was appointed 
president and Christopher Hussey, of Hampton, one of 
six councillors. 

There are several theories concerning the death of 
Christopher Hussey. The fact that he followed the sea 
may have given rise to a belief that he was drowned 
at sea or eaten by cannibals. Joshua Coffin, however, 
says that he died at Hampton, 'New Hampshire, March 
6, 1686, and Austin, in " One Hundred and Sixty Al- 
lied Families," states that " Town records of Hampton 
declare he was buried there March 8, 1686." 

He had two sons and three daughters : 

Stephen, married Martha Bunker. 

John, married Rebecca Perkins. 

Hulda, married John Smith and lived to be ninety- 
seven years old. 

Mary. 

Theodata. 

His eldest son, Stephen, came to Nantucket and mar- 
ried Martha Bunker, October 8, 1676. He had lived 
at Barbadoes, had considerable property, and was a 
Friend before a Society was formed upon the island. 



54 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

He was at one time representative to the General 
Court. 

He died February 2, 1718, in his eighty-eighth year, 
and was buried in Friends' first burial ground at ISTan- 
tucket. His children were Puella, Abigail, Sylvanus, 
Bachiller, Daniel, George, and Theodata. 

John Hussey, second son of Christopher Hussey, was 
appointed member of Assembly before he removed 
from Hampton, Xew Hampshire, to Delaware in 1688, 
but, being unwilling to take oath, did not serve. 

After his removal to Delaware he was appointed 
member of the Pennsylvania Assembly to represent 
New Castle County, at that time one of the " three 
lower counties of Penn," and as Pennsylvania Quakers 
were permitted to enter office A\dthout oath, he was duly 
enrolled in 1696.* 

Rev. Stephen Bachelor f was born in England in 
1561. He was well educated and had received orders 
in the Established Church, but was not in sympathy 
with its rites and institutions. His unwillingness to 
conform to its requirements had resulted in his being 
deprived of his ecclesiastical commissions. 

He spent a few years in Holland, but returned to 
London. In some records we read that " his eldest 
daughter had emigrated to America and had settled in 
the new town of Saugus, now Lynn." Here came also 
Stephen Bachelor on June 5, 1632, and here he es- 
tablished the first Episcopal Church of Lynn, accord- 

* Pennsylvania Archives, vol. ix., p. C73. 

t The name is variously spelled in the old records, and not less 
variously at the present time by his descendants. 



Christopher Uussey. 55 

ine to his own ideas. Differences occurred from time 
to time, but finally, when a council of ministers was 
called, it was decided that, " although the church had 
not been properly instituted, yet the mutual exercise of 
their religious duties had supplied the defect." 

His removal from Lynn was desired by those who dif- 
fered with him, but where in that day did not religious 
difference lead to enmity ? 

On May 6, 1635, he was admitted a freeman and re- 
moved first to Ipswich, where he received a grant of 
fifty acres of land and proposed to locate; but he soon 
left Ipswich, and, wdth some friends, John Wing and 
others, went to Mattacheese, on Barnstable Bay, now 
Yarmouth, with a view to establishing a colony there. 
This enterprise proved impracticable, and he went next 
to J^ewbury, and on the 6th of July, 1638, received a 
grant of land from the town. 

On the 6tli of September the General Court gave 
him permission to settle a town at Hampton, a few miles 
from Xewburyport, in IS^ew Hampshire. 

In 1639 the town of Ipswich offered him sixty acres 
of upland if he would reside with them. This he de- 
clined. 

On the 5th of July he sold his house and lands 
in [N'ewbury, and, removing to Hampton, settled the 
to\vn and established a church, of which he became 
pastor. 

In 1640 Hampton granted him 300 acres of land, and 
he gave them " a bell for their meeting-house." 

In 1647 he was at Portsmouth, where he remained 
three years. 

At the age of eighty nine he married unfortunately, 



56 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

and lived with this third wife a year only. In 1651 he 
returned to England and there died in his one hun- 
dredth year at Hackney, near London. 

Freeman says of him : " From all that we gather out 
of much tliat was written of him by his contemporaries, 
we infer that he was learned, and in tlie judgment of 
charity a good man, but that his whole life was singu- 
larly complicated with incidents of trial." 

Rev. Conway Phelps Wing, one of his descendants, 
from whose account of him much of the above has been 
gleaned, says: "In estimating his character we must 
take into consideration the peculiar spirit and agitations 
of the times, when the boldest innovations in opinion 
and practice were received on the one side with favor, 
and on the other, and especially on the side of the rul- 
ing powers, with intolerance and misrepresentation." 

Mr. Prince says: " Mr. B. was a man of fame in his 
day, a gentleman of learning and ingenuity, and wrote 
a fine and curious hand." 

His signature and seal appended to letters may be 
seen in Massachusetts Historical Collection, Vol. VII., 
fourth series. 

His children were: 

Deborah Bachelor, married John Wing. 

Theodata Bachelor, married Christopher ITussey. 

Bachelor, married Sanborn. 

Nathaniel Bachelor, married, 1656, (1) Deborah 

Smith; (2) Mary Wyman, of Woburn; (3) Elizabeth 

, and had seventeen children. 

Erancis Bachelor ) , . , . _ . 

^ , -r-, 1 , y who remained m London, 
btephen Bachelor J 



Christopher Hussey. 57 

Henry Bachelor, who had a son Henry, who lived in 
Lynn. 

Edwin L. Sanborn, LL.D., in his " History of New 
Hampshire," page 53, says: " The first churches were 
formed at Hampton and Exeter. Hampton claimes 
precedence in time. . . . The first pastor of this first- 
born church of the new State, and the father of the 
town, was Rev. Stephen Batchelder, an ancestor on the 
mother's side of Daniel Webster." 

" Susanna Batchelder, one of the descendants of 
Stephen's son ISTathaniel, married, July 20th, 1738, Eb- 
enezer Webster (born at Hampton October 10th, 1711), 
the grandfather of Daniel Webster." Lewis and ISTew- 
hall's " History of Lynn," page 141, N. E. 

Through Governor Winthrop's records, which come 
down to 1649, we learn that among the party which 
came with Rev. Stephen Bachelor in the William Fran- 
cis were John Wing and his wife Deborah (Bachelor) 
Wing, and Edward Dillingham. 

" John Wing was the original projenitor of nearly 
all who now bear the family name in America, so far as 
they are known to us." * 

He not only settled at Saugus with Stephen Bache- 
lor, but left it with him and went to Mattacheese, and 
though it was not a successful enterprise, he thereby be- 
came acquainted with the region afterwards called Cape 
Cod. 

It could not have been fertility of soil or attractive 
country that afterwards induced John Wing and others 



* Rev. Conway Phelps Wing's " John Wing, of Sandwich, and 
Hia Descendants." 



58 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

to settle in a locality which without the people who 
later gave it attraction must have seemed inhospitable 
indeed. It was within the jurisdiction of the Pl^inouth 
colony, and the Indians in the vicinity were friendly to 
the English. 

In the year 1G37 Mr, Edward Freeman * and nine 
others who had lived in Saugus formed an association 
" to erect a plantation or town within the precincts of 
his Majestys General Court at Plymouth." The point 
selected was near the neck of land between Barnstable 
and Buzzard's Bay. 

On the third day of April, 1637, a patent was grant- 
ed the original association, giving it the right to form a 
town. Among the original " Ten Men of Saugus " ap- 
pear the names of Edward Freeman and Edward Dil- 
lingham, and as the forty-fifth in the list of their as- 
sociates, that of John Wing. 

^N^early all were accompanied by their families, and 
strict rules, civil and religious, were laid do^^^l for their 
government. 

In 1638 the General Court deputized Mr. A] den and 
Miles Standish " accurately to define the limits of each 
man's allotment of land with all convenient speed." 

In 1639 an act of incorporation was granted, and the 
Indian name of Sha^vme became Sandwich. 

Here John Wing and his descendants after him have 
lived until the present time. 

John Wing was a quiet man, chiefly interested in his 
family and his lands, but his name may be found on 
court records as qualified for public business. 

* Freeman's History of Cape Cod, vol. ii., pp. 15, 17. 



Christopher Hussey. 59 

From John Wing's son Daniel are descended those 
who by marriage were associated either with Nantucket 
or with the progenitors of Nantucket settlers. 

In Bowden's " History of the Society of Friends in 
America " we learn that two English Friends named 
" Christopher Holden and John Copeland came to 
Sandwich on the 20th of Sixth month, 1657, and had a 
number of meetings." 

In 1658 eighteen families in Sandwich recorded their 
names in one of the documents of the Society of 
Friends. The Sandwich Monthly Meeting was the first 
established in America, and its records extend back to 
1672, and the Quarterly Meeting, held for many years 
alternately at New Bedford and Nantucket, was known 
as the " Sandwich Quarterly Meeting of Friends," hav- 
ing been an outcome of that organization. 

The larger number of Friends at both New Bedford 
and Nantucket was a reasonable cause for changing the 
place of meeting. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

OTHER PROPRIETORS. 

Recorded details of the remaining proprietors are 
very brief; concerning some there appears to be little 
record excepting of their proprietorship. 

Robert Pike was one of the original settlers of Salis- 
bury, Massachusetts, and shared the interest of Christo- 
pher Hussey as a proprietor of Nantucket. He con- 
tinued his relations with the settlers of the island until 
his death, which occurred about forty years after the 
purchase. As has already been stated, he was the warm 
friend of Thomas Macy. 

In 1637, on the 17th of May, in order to prevent the 
reelection of Sir Harry Vane as governor, and to 
strengthen the friends of Winthrop, ten men, among 
them Robert Pike and Thomas Coleman, went from 
IsTewbury to Cambridge on foot (forty miles) and quali- 
fied themselves to vote by taking the freeman's oath. 
Winthrop was chosen governor. (IsT. E. Hist, and Gen. 
Reg.) 

Robert Pike was representative to the General Court 
in 1648-49 and 1658-59; captain and major in 1670; 
an assistant in 1682; and a member of the Council of 
Safety in 1689. 

Note. — Davis's History of Bucks County says the Pike family 
of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is said to descend from Robert 
Pike, of Massachusetts. 



Other Proprietors. 61 

Thomas Coleman must have removed to ITantiicket 
prior to 1673, as on " October 20 " of that year he is 
recorded as " drawn on the jury " there. From a news- 
paper clipping whose related facts have been deduced 
from a memorandum book of JSTathaniel Coleman, great- 
great-great grandson of Thomas Coleman, we learn that 
Thomas arrived in Boston " June 3, 1635," came to 
Nantucket in 1680, and died in 1682. 

Joshua Coffin, in his History of ITewbury (p. 15), 
names Thomas Coleman among settlers of !Newbury in 
1635, and (p. 29) in a list of settlers of Hampton, with 
Stephen Bachelor, Christopher Hussey and others in 
1639. 

Although these records do not agree, even in facts 
given by the same authority, each may be entirely cor- 
rect, as the settlers of Nantucket appear in several in- 
stances to have gone back and forth before their final 
settlement, and it is probable that this was the case in 
other localities. 

From the same history (p. 298) we learn the follow- 
ing: 

Thomas Coleman's first wife Susanna died November 
17th, 1650, and in that year he removed to Hampton. 
He married Mary, widow of Edmund Johnson, July 
11th, 1651; his second wife died in Hampton, Jan. 

30th, 1663. He married a third time Margery 

(Ashbourne, say some authorities). 

Children of Thomas Coleman were: 

Benjamin Coleman, born May 1st, 1640. 

Joseph Coleman, born December 2d, 1642. 

Isaac Coleman, born February 20th, 1647. 

(From above dates, children of first wife.) 



fi^UI' 



62 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Joanna Coleman. 

Tobias Coleman, who was son of the third wife. 

Nathaniel Coleman was the only son of Barnabas 
Coleman and his first wife Elizabeth (Barnard). 

Barnabas was son of John 3d, who was son of John 
2d, who was son of John 1st, who was son of Thomas 
Coleman and Susanna . 

Nathaniel Coleman was Register of Deeds for Nan- 
tucket from the " 3d of August, 1785, till the 20th of 
January, 1804." 

He modestly enters in his memoranda the following 
record of his re-election : After stating that the number 
of votes cast was " 373 " " April 18, 1791," he says: 
" N. C. got 206; W. Folger got 70; S. Starbuck got 7." 

His father, Barnabas Coleman, married as second 
wife Rachel Hussey, daughter of Sylvanus, who was 
son of Stephen, who was son of Christopher Hussey, 
and another entry among the memoranda of the above- 
named reads as follows : " Barnabas Coleman and 
Rachel his wife, the number of their children and 
grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 1796 — chil- 
dren 13 grand children 113 great grand children 85." 

Thomas Baenaed, who settled in America about 
1650, was one of the purchasers of Nantucket in 1659, 
and transferred one-half of his interest to his brother, 
Robert Barnard. 

In Hoyt's " The Old Families of Salisbury and Ames- 
bury," page 13, among signatures to " Articles of 
Agreement Between the Inhabitants of the Old Town 



other Proprietors. 63 

and those of the ISlew Town," May 1, 1654, we find 
Thomas Barnard, Phillip Challis, Thomas Macy, 
John Severance and others. Page 14, under " Divi- 
sions of Land, 1654," Thomas Barnard, Phillip Challis, 
Thomas Macy and others, and among " Amesbury Com- 
moners " in 1667-8, Thomas Barnard, Sr. and Jr., and 
Lt. Phillip Challis. 

Pages 20 and 21: " Jn° Barnard and Tho: Barnard " 
are named among citizens taking " Oath of Allegiance, 
Eamsbery," December 20, 16TT. 

Thomas Barnard is named as one of the " Brethren 
of Y^ Church." Page 49, Thomas Barnard, or Bar- 
nett, of Salisbury * and Amesbury, " planter or hus- 
bandman," born about 1612 (probably a brother of 
Kobert), received land in the first division, 1640 and 
1643, was one of the first settlers of Amesbury, re- 
ceived land there at various times, and a " township " 
for one of his sons in 1660. 

His name appears in nearly all the early lists down to 
1672. He married Helen or Eleanor . 

The only explanation for the statement in an old 
record that Thomas Barnard " died abroad " lies in the 
fact that among old-fashioned people of j^antucket go- 

" Hoy t says ; " The plantation was first named Colchester, Sep- 
tember 4, 1839, changed to Salisbury October 7, 1640." 

Note. — Hoyt, in " The Old Families of Salisbury and Ames- 
bury," page 18, says : " As early as 1642 the town of Salisbury or- 
dered that thirty familes should remove to the west side of the 
Powow River (Amesbury) before 1645. Salisbury seems to have 
had about twice as many inhabitants as Amesbury soon after 
the formal separation. On Amesbury Eecords we find, dated 
March 19, 1054-5, in a list of the " present inhabitance and com- 
enors heare in the new towne," Thomas Barnard and others. 



64 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

ing out to an afternoon tea was " going abroad." Usu- 
ally anywhere away from the island was " off " or " off 
island." This particular recorder certainly meant 
"off island " when he wrote " Thomas died abroad," 
as the records of Salisbury say he was killed by Indians 
about 1677. 

His widow, Eleanor Barnard, administered on his 
estate. When it was settled, in 1679, there were nine 
children. (It is believed that some of these were chil- 
dren-in-law.) 

In a list of inhabitants applying for " Amesbury 
Meeting House seats," July, 1667, is found the name of 
" Goodwife Barnard." 

Eleanor Barnard, widow of Thomas, married, July 
19th, 1681, George Little, of i^ewbury. She died ^o- 
vember 27th, 1694. 

E-OBEKT Barnard, " husbandman," of Salisbury and 
Andover, removed to N'antucket in 1663, and died there 
in 1682. He married Joanna Harvey,* who died in 
1705. He had a son, John Barnard, born 1642, who 
married Bethiah Folger, daughter of Peter Folger, and 
a daughter, Mary Barnard, who married her cousin, 
ISTathaniel Barnard, son of Thomas and Eleanor 
Barnard. 

Hoyt says : " Letters of administration on the estate 
of Robert Barnard, Senior, late of Andover, Yoeman, 
who died intestate, were granted to his grandson, Rob- 
ert Barnard, Eebruary 1st, 1714-15. Stephen Barnard, 
son of the elder Robert Barnard, signed a statement 

* Some authorities say daughter of Harvey, of Plymouth 

Colony. 



Other Proprietors. 65 

that he was incapable of acting by reason of age, and 
asking that his son Eobert be appointed. James 
Bridges and Stephen Barnard were witnesses." 

This administration was more than thirty years after 
the death of the intestate, and as a lawsuit with the 
State is mentioned in connection with the appointment 
of the administrator, it is probable that it was due to 
some claim made in behalf of the State. 

Nathaniel Barnard, in his will, refers to " my father- 
in-law Eobert Barnard," which leaves no doubt of the 
fact that Mary Barnard, daughter of Eobert, was at 
one time his wife. 

As he names no wife in said will it is a natural con- 
clusion that he outlived her. 

EiCHARD Swain (Eowley, 1639) came to America in 
the Truelove 1635, aged thirty-four, settled at Hamp- 
ton, and married, in 1658, Jane Godfrey Bunker, widow 
of George Bunker, of Ipswich. They removed to ITan- 
tucket. While living at Hampton he was " Selectman 
and Commissioner for Small Causes." In 1639 he had 
liberty to " settle small claims." 

The children of Eichard Swain were: 

Francis, who married Martha . 

William, of Hampton, N. H., who married Pru- 
dence Marston. 



Note.— Nathaniel Barnard, son of Thomas, is by some said to 
have married Mary, daughter of John Lugg, but Savage says, 
vol. i., page 120: "High Nantucket authority claims that he 
came from England in 1650 with his uncle, Robert Barnard, 
whose daughter Mary he married." It is not impossible that he 
had two wives. Mary Barnard appears, from Nantucket records, 
to have been the mother of his children. 



6G Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Dorotliy, who married, first, Thomas Abbott; second, 
Edward Chapman. 

Elizabeth, who married ISTathaniel Weare. 

John, who married Mary Wier or Weare.* 

Richard Swain and his wife Jane (Godfrey) (Bun- 
ker) Swain had one son, Richard, who removed to New 
Jersey. Richard Swain, Sr., died in 1682. 

John Swain (the proprietor), son of Richard Swain, 
Sr., has left a record in his house, known as the oldest 
house on the island, which is still standing, although 
much out of repair. John Swain's wife, Mary Wier or 
Weare, was daughter of N^athaniel Weare (Savage, Vol. 
IV., p. 234). John Swain died in 1Y17. This family 
were members of the Society of Friends at a very early 
date. 

* Nathaniel Weare, Newbury, son, perhaps, of Peter, ot 
the same, born in England about 1631, . . . became coun- 
sellor of N. H. . . . married Elizabeth, daughter ot Eichard 
Swain of Rowley." (Savage, vol. iv., p. 441.) 

N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xxv., p. 246, says : " The family 
of Wier is one of good standing in Scotland, whose name is said 
to be the same as Vere. 

" In early years in this country were persons spelling their 
name Weare, Weir, Weyer, Wier, Wire, Wyer, all probably in- 
tending the same name, and many, if not all, possibly belonging 
to one family. 

"First was Robert Wyer, of Boston; next Peter Weare, who 
died in Newbury. 

" There was a Nathaniel Weare or Wire early in Newbury^ af- 
terwards of Nantucket, where he died March 1st, 1681, who had 
a daughter Hester, wife of Benjamin Swett and Stephen Green- 
leaf, and a son Nathaniel, who married in Newbury December 3, 
1656, Elizabeth Swain, moved to Hampton, was a Councillor and 
Chief Justice of New Hampshire, and died May 13, 1718, leaving 
sons Nathaniel and Peter," and, Savage says, " six others." 



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CHAPTER IX. 

PETEE FOLGEE. 

Benjamin Teanklin, in his genealogical notes, infers 
that the Folger family was of Flemish origin, and went 
to England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 

Peter Folger, son of John Folger, was bom in 1617, 
and came from JSTorwich, England, in 1635. 

He went with his father to Martha's Vineyard, 
where he taught a school and surveyed land; he also 
assisted Thomas Mayhew, Jr., in his labors as a mission- 
ary among the Indians. 

He was a Baptist, but it is believed that when an old 
man he embraced the views of Friends. 

Although he was not one of the first proprietors of 
Nantucket, he may be regarded as a very early settler, 
having removed to the island in 1663. 

" N"antucket, 4*^ July, 1663. 

" These presents witnesseth that we whose names are 
underwritten do give and grant unto peter foulger, half 
a share of accommodations on the land above sayd, that 
is to say half so much as one of the twenty purchasers, 
both in respect of upland, meadow, wood, timber and 
other appurtenances belonging to him and his hiers for- 
ever on condition that he com to inhabit on Ifland 
aforesayd with his family within one year after the sale 
hereof. Likewise that the sayd peter shall atend the 
English in the way of an Interpreter between the In- 



68 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

dians and them upon al necessary ocasions, his house 
lot to be layd at the place commonly called by the name 
of Rogers field so as may be most convenient. 
" Witness our hands. 

" John Smyth " Teisteam Coffin Sr 

" Thos Macy for myseK and others 

" Edward Starbuck being empowered by 

" John Swaynb them. 

" Robert Barnard 

" Richard Sway^ne " Peter Coffin 

" John Rolfe " Steven Greenleaf 

" Thos Mayhew " Tristram Coffin Jr 

" William Pile for two 

shares 
" Nathaniel Starbuck 
" Thomas Coleman." 

Cotton Mather describes Peter Polger as an " Able 
Godley Englishman who was employed in teaching the 
youth in Reading, Writing and the Principles of Re- 
ligion by Catechism, being well-learned likewise in the 
Scriptures and Capable of Help in religious matters." 

At Nantucket he was chosen clerk of the court and 
recorder July 21, 1673; he also surveyed lands for the 
settlers, and was regarded as the scholar of the com- 
munity. 

The varied employments of Peter Folger prove him 
to have been as versatile as industrious; to him, at least, 
" the knowing Folgers lazy " could not have been ap- 
plied; and if there was ever any foundation in fact for 
the character which the little Nantucket rhvme has 



■5©- '0^- 





Mrs. E. D: Gillespie. 



Feier Folyer. 69 

fastened upon this family, it must have been earned by; 
a later representative of the name. 

His mantle fell upon some of his descendants, and 
he bequeathed to them' decided ability. 

" His son Eleazer, and Eleazer, Jr., were intelligent, 
literary and mathematical." 

Peter Folger died in 1690; Mary, his widow, in 1704. 

Abiah Folger, the youngest child of Peter Folger, 
and the only one born on IvTantucket, married Josiah 
Franklin, of Boston. 

Benjamin Franklin, son of Josiah and Abiah (Fol- 
ger) Franklin, married Deborah Read, of Philadelphia. 

Richard Bache, born in England, in 1737, immi- 
grated to the United States, where he married, in 1767, 
Sarah, only daughter of Benjamin and Deborah (Read) 
Franklin. Richard Bache was Postmaster-General of 
the United States in 1776. 

Richard Bache's marriage with Sarah, daughter of 
Benjamin Franklin, continues the Folger family line 
in Philadelphia, Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, of Philadelphia, 
being a granddaughter of Richard Bache.* This branch 
of Peter Folger's family has made its mark in many 
lines of work; there have been among the generations 
which have succeeded the great philosopher men who 
have reached distinction in the army and navy, as men 
of letters, at the bar, and in the service of the church, 
and women w^ho in patriotic and educational work have 
proved the ability transmitted to them from their ven- 
erable ancestor. 

* Other descendants in this line intermarried with Irwin, Hodge, 
Humphrey, Davis, Pepper, and Perry (of the family of Commo- 
dore Perry). 



70 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

It is gratifying to note in the autobiography of 
Franklin that he was deeply interested in his ancestors, 
nor did he consider time lost when in England he made 
an effort to ascertain from records there the past his- 
tory of his family. 

That he did not lose sight of the fact that ISTan- 
tucket contributed a very considerable factor to his an- 
cestry is evidenced by his interest in the place and its 
people. 

One of Franklin's biographers says: 

" He took much pains to collect information about 
the Gulf Stream. 

" This wonderful river in the ocean has been long 
known, but the first people to observe it closely were 
the Kantucket whalemen, who found that their game 
was numerous on the edges of it, but was never seen 
within its warm waters. 

" In consequence of their more exact knowledge they 
were able to make faster voyages than other seamen. 
Franklin learned about it from them, and on his numer- 
ous voyages made many observations, which he care- 
fully recorded. 

" He obtained a map of it from one of the whalemen, 
which he caused to be engraved for the general benefit 
of navigation on the old London chart, then univer- 
sally used by sailors." 

This account is confirmed by Franklin's notes, in 
which he states that the Nantucket whalemen were ex- 
tremely well acquainted with the " Gulph Stream " 
'' from their island quite down to the Bahamas," and he 
further says that from Captain Folger he obtained a 
copy of the sketch or draft used by Nantucket whale- 



Peter Folger. 71 

men, and caused it to be engraved on the London 
chart. 

Alexander Starbuck, in his " History of the Ameri- 
can Whalefishery," says, " it is substantially the same 
as is found on charts of the present day." 

Walter Folger, another descendant of Peter Fol- 
ger, was the son of Walter and Elizabeth (Starbuck) 
Folger. Elizabeth was daughter of Thomas Starbuck. 

Walter Folger first was son of Barzillai and Phebe 
(Coleman) Folger. 

Barzillai was son of Nathan, who was son of Eleazer 
and Sarah (Gardner) Folger, and Eleazer was son of 
Peter Folger. 

Walter Folger second practiced law for twenty years, 
and was for six years judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas, during which time no case decided by him was 
ever carried to a higher court; he was six years in the 
Massachusetts Senate, one year in the House of Repre- 
sentatives of Massachusetts, and four years in the Con- 
gress of the United States; in addition to this he was 
one of the best mathematicians and mechanics of his 
day. He has left as a record of his mechanical skill a 
remarkable clock, still in the possession of his family. 

He commenced work upon this clock at the age of 
twenty-two, and, devoting to it his leisure hours only, 
completed it in the course of the second year. 

It was put in motion July 4, 1790, and in 1901, 
though brown with age, is still a good time-keeper; the 
glass only which covered its face has been renewed. 
William C. Folger says, " He made not only the works 
but the case also, I am told." 



72 Early Settlers of Nantuclcet. 

" It is made of brass and steel. It keeps the date of 
the year and the day of the month; the sun and moon 
rise and set in accordance with those in the heavens; 
it also shows the earth's place on the ecliptic; it keeps 
the moon's nodes around the ecliptic; the wheel that 
keeps the date of the year revolves once in one hundred 
years, remaining still ten years, and at the expiration 
of each ten years it starts regularly one notch; the 
diurnal motion of the sun is represented by a circular 
metallic plate so adjusted that it is seen through a slit 
in the dial-plate at a greater or less meridian altitude, 
as the declination changes, rising and setting as in na- 
ture, and changing the time in conformity to the lati- 
tude, . . . giving also through the entire day the time 
of his rising and setting and place of the earth on the 
ecliptic; the moon is represented by a spherule exhib- 
ited to the eye in the same manner, but by having one 
hemisphere colored, and, by a process much more com- 
plicated, shows not only the rising, setting, and south- 
ing of the moon with the time of full sea at ISTantucket, 
but also the chief phenomena dependent on the ob- 
liquity of the moon's path to the ecliptic, such as the 
hunter's and harvest moons. 

" Some of these involve a motion of the works 
through a period of eighteen years and two hundred 
and twenty-five days, and the wheel by which the date 
of the year is advertised is so constructed that its revo- 
lution is only completed in one hundred years." 

Walter Folger never learned a trade, never studied 
law with a law;y'er, nor went to any institution of learn- 
ing where anything above the alphabet, spelling, read- 
ing in the Bible, arithmetic, and surve'^ang were taught. 



Birthplace of Maria Mitchell, 

Vestal Street, Nantidcket. 



Peter Folyer. 73 



Maria Mitchell, late Professor of Astronomy at 
Vassar College, whose mathematical ability needs no 
comment to the present generation, was a lineal de- 
scendant of Peter Folger. Maria Mitchell was daughter 
of William and Lydia (Coleman) Mitchell. Lydia 
Coleman was daughter of Andrew Coleman, who was 
son of Enoch, who was son of Jeremiah, who was son 
of John, who married Joanna Folger, daughter of Peter 
Folger. On the paternal side as well she was descended 
from Peter Folger, and from many of the early settlers 
on the island.- (See page 141.) 

William Mitchell filled many positions which 
brought him into touch with men of letters. He was at 
one time chairman of the Harvard Observatory Com- 
mittee, and for a long time one of the Overseers of 
Harvard College; a member, also, of the Massachusetts 
Senate, and one of Governor Briggs' Council; and his 
associations were with the brilliant minds that public 
life in Boston knew in the earlier half of the nineteenth 
century. 

In their home the children were accustomed to culti- 
vated society. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell entertained 
many people of rare attainments, as well as the minis- 
tering Friends who visited the island. 

Here, at the age of twelve. Miss Mitchell began her 
astronomical observations. 

Her brother. Prof. Henry Mitchell, referring to the 
eclipse of 1831, says: " It was this annular eclipse de- 
scribed in the next year's American Almanac as a 
^ splendid spectacle ' — ' beautiful and sublime,' that 
first called in the services of Maria Mitchell, as appears 



74 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

from the accompanying fac-simile of her father's ob- 
servations at Vestal Street. 

" We conjecture that the note signed ^ M. M.' was 
added after her father's death in 1869, at the time his 
papers were gathered up. 



" These observations of the eclipse made in concur- 
rence with those of Paine at Monomoy and Bond at 
Dorchester had for practical object the determination 
of the longitude of the house in Vestal Street where 
the chronometers of the whale-ships were carried to be 
rated and set to Greenwich time." 

" Mr. Mitchell came in time to be the rater of all 
chronometers of a fleet of ninety-two whale-ships re- 
quiring observations on every fine day of the year. We 
mention this to indicate how accustomed his daughter 
must have been to the talk of astronomy, even as the 
source, in part, of her daily bread." 

The connection of the Barker family with Nantucket 
and with the family of Peter Folger furnishes a link 
between ]^antucket and Plymouth. 

Jacob Barker, financier and merchant, was son of 

Robert Barker and Sarah Gardner. 
Robert Barker was son of 

Samuel Barker and Bethiah Folger. 
Samuel Barker was son of 

Isaac Barker and Judith Prcnce. 
Bethiah Polger was daughter of 

John, and granddaughter of Twtbr Folohb, 






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Peter Folger. 75 

Judith Pretjce was daughter of 

GovEKNOB Thomas Pkewce and Mary Collier, 

and granddaughter of 
William Collier. 

William Collier, whose daughter Mary was second 
wife of Governor Prence, was a wealthy merchant, who 
came early to Plymouth and soon removed to Dux- 
bury.* It is not known whether he brought with him 
a wife, but Savage says " four daughters of excellent 
character came with him," — Sarah, who married 
Love Brewster; Mary, who married Thomas Prence; 
Elizabeth, who married Constant Southworth; and Re- 
becca. 

William Collier was assistant governor twenty-eight 
years,! member of Council of War four years,:}: member 
of Provincial Congress in 1643, and one of the com- 
mittee of two appointed by Congress to sign the Arti- 
cles of Confederation. § He died in Duxbury in 1671. 

Thomas Prence was born at Lechdale, Gloucester- 
shire, England, in 1600; he died in Plymouth, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1673. He was governor of the Plymouth 
Colony eighteen years, assistant thirteen years, treas- 
urer one year, member of the Council of War five 
years, commissioner twelve years, alternate commis- 
sioner several years. The IST. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 
vol. vi., p. 234, thus speaks of him: 

* Savage, vol. i., p. 443. 

■\ Plymouth Colonial Records, vol. i., pp. 32-36, etc. 
t Ibid., vol. ii., pp. 47, 64. 

§ See Wineor'B History of Duxbury, p. 90, and Savage, vol. i., p. 
433. 



76 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

" He was a worthy gentleman and very able for his 
office, and faithful in the discharge thereof, studious of 
peace, a well wilier to all that feared God and a terror 
to the wicked." 

Doubtless, from various records, Thomas Prence was 
a zealot in his own belief and intolerant of all whose 
views did not accord with his; it must be remembered 
that in that day intolerance was the rule and charity 
the exception. 

Governor Prence and his associates believed they 
were engaged in their Master's service in any perse- 
cutions they were party to, and the author of " The 
Pilgrim Republic " says, " A severe execution of the 
laws was exceptional with them and they often exer- 
cised leniency on slight pretexts." 

He further says, '' Thomas Prence had ever swayed 
the courts in religious matters. Let it stand as a 
redeeming trait to his character that he used this influ- 
ence to emancipate his people from the bonds of a 
world-wide superstition.* Prence also honored himself 
by zealously promoting public education. . . . The 
stern Calvinism which he cherished had long been 
losing its hold on the public mind, and the signs of the 
times were ominous to those conservative principles 
which he considered essential to a good government 
... it is probable that the weary Governor was quite 
ready to go when death summoned him from the Gov- 
ernment-house April 8, 1673, at the age of seventy- 
three. f 

■" Witchcraft. 

f For dates and authorities concerning the services of Thomas 
Prence, see Justin Winsor's History of Duxbury; Plymouth Col- 



Professor Henry Mitchell. 



A 



Peter Folger. 77 

" Ten days later, with all the ceremony due to his 
office, he was laid on Burial Hill, in a grave now un- 
known." 

Dr. Edward T. Tucker, in an article written for 
" The American Friend," and published in its issue 
dated Sixth month 20th, 1901, gives many inter- 
esting facts concerning the attitude of the Plymouth 
Colony toward Quakers and the intolerance of Gov- 
ernor Prence toward the sect. Among his descendants 
are many representatives of the Society. 

" Arthur Howland, brother of John Howland, was 
summoned to appear at the house of John Alden to 
answer for entertaining a Quaker. . . . 

" At a Court held June 1st, 1658, before Thomas 
Prence, Governor, and his assistants, Robert Harper, 
Kalph Allen, Jr., John Allen, Thomas Greenfield, Ed- 
ward Perry, Richard Kirby, Jr., William Allen, 
Thomas Ewer, William Gifford, George Allen, Jr., 
Matthew Allen, Daniel Wing, John Jenkins, Jr., and 
George Webb, of Sandwich, were summoned and gave 
a reason for refusing to take the oath of fidelity to the 
government and to the mother country, as they de- 
clared it unlawful to take oath. . . . 

" William Newland, of Sandwich, and Henry How- 
land, of Duxbury, were disfranchised for being abettors 
of and entertainers of Quakers. . . . 

" Arthur Howland, of Marshfield, and Henry How- 
land, of Duxbury, were numbered among the staunch 
advocates of the Society in their respective localities. 
John Howland, their brother, was one of the company 

ony Eecords; Savage; N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg.; and The Pil- 
grim Republic, by John A. Goodwin. 



78 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

in the Mayflower, nearly forty years before, and had 
been an influential resident in the Colony." 

John Howland was not a member of the Society of 
Friends. 

Arthur Howland, Jr., son of Arthur, married Eliza- 
beth Prence after many years of opposition on the part 
of her father. Governor Prence. 

His prejudice against Quakers was so strong that 
Arthur was fined five dollars for presuming to pay at- 
tention to Elizabeth, and forbidden to see her. 

When, after years, the young people, faithful to 
each other, and regardless of their duty to parental au- 
thority, renewed the engagement, Arthur was again 
fined five dollars, which fine was duly paid, but the 
ardent lover prevailed, and history says Elizabeth 
Prence became " Mistress Arthur Howland." 

William Allen Butlek belongs to this branch of 
the family, his great-grandmother having been a haK- 
sister of Jacob Barker and daughter of the aforesaid 
Robert Barker. 

Another descendant of Peter Folger was the late 
Charles James Folgek, who was born at ISTantucket in 
1S18; when he was thirteen years of age the family 
removed to Geneva, 'New York. He graduated at 
Hobart College in 1836, read law with Mark H. Sibley, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was judge, 
State senator, chief justice, sub-treasurer of the United 
States, in ISTew York, and finally Secretary of the 
Treasury of the United States. 



li 



CHAPTER X. 

THOMAS GAEDINEK, AND HIS SONS RICHARD AND JOHN 
GARDNER. 

William C. Folger, in his notes on the Gardner 
family, makes the following entry: " Farmer, in his 
Register, says, ' Thomas Gardner came from Scotland; ' 
a Nantucket tradition says he came from Sherborne, in 
the northern part of the County of Dorset, and that the 
former name of IvTantucket (Sherburne) was given 
through the influence of his family. There is no ques- 
tion of the fact that they exercised considerable influ- 
ence over the affairs of the town." 

There are few natives of Nantucket who do not claim 
descent from Thomas Gardner. 

From New England History and Genealogical Reg- 
ister, vol. XXV., pp. 48, 49, we learn that " Thomas 
Gardiner, the first of the Salem stock, came over in 
1624 from Dorsetshire, England, near which the name 
had flourished for more than three centuries, and set- 
tled under the auspices of the Dorchester Company and 
Rev. John White, with thirteen others at Gloucester, 
Cape Ann, upon the grant of Lord Sheffield to Robert 
Cushman and Edward Winslow, made in January of 
that year. 

Note.— Mr. Folger, referring to the characteristic " silent " as 
applied to the Gardner family, says: "They certainly have been 
less noisy and have displayed more shrewdness than many other 
families, and in proportion to their numbers have had the largest 
share of offices." 



80 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

" Mr. Gardner was overseer of the plantation, John 
Tillev of the lishcries, Eoger Conant being isoon after 
appointed Governor. 

'* Xot realizing the success they anticipated in 
founding a colony they removed, in 1626, to Xaum- 
keag, or Salem, which continued the home of Mr. 
Gardner and his descendants down to the present cen- 
tury. He died in 1635." 

Henry Drinker Biddle, in his '* History of the 
Drinker Family," on page six, says: 

'' Sarah Gardner, the wife of Benjamin Balch, was 
the daughter of Thomas Gardner, the iirst Goveriior of 
the Cape Ann Colony.'' 

Savage, Vol. II., p. 230, gives the following in sub- 
stance: 

Thomas Gardner, Salem, was first at Cape Ann em- 
ployed by the projectors of the settlement to oversee 
the fisheries; 1024 or 5 he removed ^^'ith Koger Con- 
ant; was made freeman IT May, 1637, and was repre- 
sentative same year. He was also a member of the 
Town Council of Salem for a number of years. 

The weight of authority would indicate that Thomas 
Gardiner and John Tillev were the chief rulers of the 
Cape Ann Colony during the time which preceded the 
appointment of Eoger Conant as Governor. 

As during that time they were in the highest posi- 
tion, other authorities than Mr. Biddle have referred 
to Thomas Gardiner as Governor, and as such he has 
been quoted through many generations. 

Prom the Historical Collections of Essex Institute 
of Salem, we learn that the name of Gardiner has been 



Thomas Gardiner. 81 

knoAVTi and respected throughout the entire history of 
the city. 

He married: first, Margaret Frier, who was the 
mother of his children; second, Damaris Shattuck, 
widow. 

Thomas Gardiner had several sons, among whom, 
as early settlers of Nantucket, although not original 
proprietors, were Eichard and John, who took an active 
part in affairs civil and military. 

Austin says that Richard Gardner lived at Salem 
from 1643 to 1666; he and his wife (Sarah Shattuck) 
were persecuted for attending Quaker Meeting, and 
went to Nantucket, where they spent the remainder of 
their lives. 

In 1673, Governor Lovelace commissioned Richard 
as chief magistrate of Nantucket, " he to hold his com- 
mission until the next election and return and approba- 
tion of a new one by Francis Lovelace." * 

Copy of " A Letter from the Secretary to y^ Inhah^ of 
Nantuckett. \_Deeds III. 89, Secretary's Office.'] 

" New Yorke, Apr. ye 24th, 1673. 

" Gent: — By the Governo"^ Ord"" I am to acquaint 

you. That hee Received your Letter (bearing Date 

the 3d Day of Aprill) about three weeks fince, by the 

Hands of Mr. Richard Gardner, together with eight 

^Authority for this commission may be found on pp. 87, 88, 
in a manuscript volume entitled, Deeds, vol. 3, in the office of the 
Secretary of State in Albany. 

Note. — Some descendants of Lion Gardiner live now on Nan- 
tucket; whether there is any connection between Thomas Gar- 
diner and Lion Gardiner is not knoAvn. 



82 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Barrels of ffifh for two Yeares, Acknowledgement, and 
a Token of fifty weight of ffeathers, for which your 
Care of the Former and Kindnefs in the Latter hee 
Returns you Thanks. There came to the Governo' in 
the Winter a Letter from Mr Tristram Coffin about 
your Election, but no other from you; in anfwer to 
which you had heard from him fooner, but the Diffi- 
culty of Conveyance hindered. You will now under- 
ftand the Governors Choice, by the Bearers hereof Mr. 
Richard and Captain John Gardner ; 

" That is, Mr. Richard Gardner for Chief e Magif trate 
this Yeare, and Capt. John Gardner for Chiefe Mili- 
tary Officer, for which they have Commiffiona. They 
have aKo with them fome Additional Inftructions and 
Directions to Communicate to you; moft of which were 
Propofed by thofe two ffriends you sent who have pru- 
dently Managed the Truft you Repof ed in them. They 
have alfo with them a Booke of the Lawes of the Gov- 
ernment, and three Conf tables Staves; 

" As to your ISTon-perf ormance of the Acknowledge- 
ment according to the Strictnefs of the Time, his Hono'" 
being fenfible that Opportunityes doe not very fre- 
quently prefent between these Places, hee is very well 
Satisfyed vnth. your Civill Excufe. If at any Time you 
have other Propofalls to make, for the Good of yo"" In- 
habitants, you may reft affured of his Hono" ready 
Complyance therein. This is all I have in Charge to 
Deliver unto you from the Governour, foe take Leave 
and Subscribe 

" Gent : Yo"" very humble Servant 

" Matthias Nicolls." 



Thomas Gardiner. 83 

John Gardner was magistrate at Nantucket in 1680, 
and judge of probate from 1699 until his death, which 
occurred in 1706, at the age of eighty-two. He is re- 
ferred to by Cotton Mather as being " well acquainted 
with the Indians, having divers years assisted them in 
their government, by instructing them in the laws of 
England and deciding difficult cases among them."* In 
1673, John Gardner was appointed " Captain and Chief 
Military Officer of the Ffoot Company." 

Copy of ' ' Commiffion for Cap*' John Gardner of "Che 
Ifland of JSTantucket^ to hee Capt. of the Foot Com- 
pany there. \_Deeds III. 88, Secretary's Office.'] 

" Francis Lovelace, Esq""., &c: Governo' Gen^" under 
his Royall H® James Duke of Yorke and Albany, &c; 
of all his Territoryes in America; To Cap*. John Gard- 
ner of y^ Island Nantuckett. Whereas, You are one 
of the two Persons returned unto mee by the Inhab*' 
of your Ifland, to bee the Chief e Military Officer there, 
having conceived a good opinion of your ffittnefs and 
Capacity ; By Vertue of the Commiffion and Authority 

* From no records do we read of serious diflBculties on Nan- 
tucket between the Indians and the white men; they followed the 
example of the settlers in fishing for whales, which were plentiful 
on that shoal-bound coast, and " became the most expert of the 
original wlialers of Nantucket." 

Note. — John Gardner's daughter Rachel married John Brown, 
of iSalem, son of Elder John Brown and Hannah (Hobart). 

Hannah Hobart was daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, who was 
born in Hingham, County of Norfolk, England, in 1604, and died 
in Hingham, Massachusetts, January 20, 1679. (Hobart Family 
Memorial, Part I., pp. 103, 104, No. 23, III. A.) 

He was the first minister of the Gospel in Hingham, Massachu- 



84 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



\ 



unto mee given by his Eoyall Highneffe, James Duke 
of Yorke and Albany, I have Constituted and Ap- 
pointed, and by these Presents doe hereby Constitute 
and Appoint you John Gardner to be Captaine and 
Chiefe Military Officer of the ffoot Company rifsen or 
to bee rifen within the Iflands of Nantuckett and Tuc- 
kanuckett; you are to take the said Company into your 
Charge and Care as Captaine thereof, and them duly 
to Exercise in Armes; and all Officers and Souldyers 
belonging to the said Company are to Obey you as 
their Captaine. 

" And you are to follow f uch Orders and Inf tructions, 
as you fhall from Time to Time Receive from mee or 
other your Superiour Officers according to the disci- 
pline of Warr; for the doeing whereof this fhall be 
your Comif-fion. 

setts, was educated at Cambridge, England, and came to New 
England June 8, 1C35; was admitted freeman same year, and set- 
tled at Hingham in September, 1635. 

Savage, vol. ii., p. 435, says he took his A.B. in 1625, his A.M. 
in 1629, that he wrote his name Hubberd, was of the Magdalen 
College, and bad preached at divers places, last at Haverhill, in 
Suffolk, before coming here. 

Savage further says, — 

" Peter brought with him a wife and four children certainly, — 
viz.: 

" Joshua Hobart. 

" Jeremiah Hobart. 

" Josiah Hobart. 

" Elizabeth Hobart, m. John Ripley. 

" And after coming here thirteen were added to the number, — 
viz.: 

" Icabod Hobart. 

" Hannah Hobart, died soon. 

" Hannah Hobart, tn. John Bro-wn, of Salem. 

" Bathsheba Hobart, m. Joseph Turner, of Scituate, 1640. 



Thomas Gardiner. 85 

" Given under my Hand and Seale at Fort James in 
New Yorke this 15th Day of Aprill in the 25th Yeare 
of his Ma*^^' Reigne, Annoq^ Domini, 1673. 

" Fran. Lovelace." 

" Israel Hobart, m. Sarah Wetherill, dau. of Rev. William 
Wetherill, 1668. 

" Jael Hobart, m. Joseph Bradford, son of Governor Bradford. 

" Gershon Hobart, m. Sarah . 

" Japhet Hobart, m. 

" Nehemiah Hobart, m. Sarah Jackson, 1678. 

" David Hobart, m. 1st, Joanna Quincy, dau. Edmund Quincy 
second; 2d, Sarah Joyce. 

" Rebecca Hobart, m. Daniel Mason, of Stonington (as second 
wife ) . 

" Abigail Hobart, unni. 

" Lydia Hobart, m. Captain Thomas Lincoln, 1690 (as second 
wife), and [Savage adds] 'the patriarch died 1679.' 

" In Rev. Peter Hobart's will, made four days before his death, 
he names fourteen living children, and wife Rebecca (probably 
daughter of Richard Ibrook), who was mother of the last six 
children; no mention is made in Hingham records of the death of 
the first wife. 

" Edmund Hobart, father of Rev. Peter Hobart, was a member 
of the General Court, 1639-40-42, from Hingham, Massachusetts. 
He brought a wife and several children with him from England 
in 1635, and died in 1646, leaving Edmund, Joshua, Rev. Peter, 
Thomas, and two daughters, Rebecca and Sarah." 



CHAPTEK XI. 

SAMUEL SHATTUCK. 

The name of Shattuck is associated with. Nantucket, 
through the marriage of Sarah Shattuck * to Richard 
Gardner, son of Governor Thomas Gardiner. 

There has appeared to be some difficulty in finding 
exact and clear record concerning Samuel Shattuck, but 
the most likely history of his family is that there were 
two of the name — that Damaris, who in her widowhood, 
married Thomas Gardiner, was widow of Samuel and 
mother of Samuel. 

Damaris Shattuck was without much doubt a widow 
when she came to Massachusetts; it is believed by the 
family that her husband died on the voyage to Amer- 
ica, a not infrequent occurrence in the long voyages of 
early times. 

Two sons of Thomas Gardiner married daughters of 
their step-mother. 

Richard Gardner married Sarah Shattuck, and they 
have many descendants among ISTantucket's sons and 

* It has been the belief of many descendants of Sarah (Shat- 
tuck) Gardner that she was a daughter of Samuel Shattuck, 
concerning whom this chapter is written^ and Savage (vol. ii., 
p. 229) says, "Richard Gardner married Sarah Shattuck, prob- 
ably daughter of Samuel; " other authorities, and those having 
most weight in this connection, give Samuel with Sarah in a list 
of the children of Damaris Shattuck (widow who married 
Thomas Gardiner). 



Samuel Shattuck. 87 

daughters. George Gardner married Hannali Shat- 
tuck. 

Samuel Shattuck, who is the subject of this chapter, 
was by a careful investigation of dates doubtless son of 
Damaris Shattuck. 

He is described as "an inhabitant of Salem of good 
repute," was born in England about 1620; on coming to 
this country he settled in Salem, Massachusetts. 

A stone still standing over his grave in Salem bears 
the following inscription: 

" Here lyeth buried y^ body of Samuel Shattuck 
aged 69 years who departed this life in y* 6th day of 
June 1689." He was present at a Friends' Meeting 
when Christopher Holder attempted to speak, and he 
" endeavored to prevent their thrusting a handkerchief 
into Holder's mouth lest it should have choked him," 
for which attempt he was carried to Boston and im- 
prisoned till he had " given bond to answer it at the 
next Court and not to come to any Quaker meeting." 

The following extracts are taken from the edition of 
Besse's " Collection of The Sufferings of the People 
called Quakers," printed in London in 1753 (vol. ii., pp. 
187, 188). 

A Letter of the Prisoners to the Magistrates at the Court 

in Salem. 
" Friends: 

" Whereas it was your Pleasures to commit us, 
whose names are underwritten, to the House of Correc- 
tion in Boston, although the Lord the righteous Judge 
of Heaven and Earth is our witness, that we had done 



88 Early Settlers of Nantuclcet. 

nothing worthy of Stripes or of Bonds, and we being 
committed by your Court to be dealt withal as the Law 
provides for foreign Quakers, as y^ please to term us; 
and having some of us suffered your Law and Pleasures, 
now that which we do expect is, now to be set free by 
the same Law, as your Manner is with Strangers and 
not to put us in upon the Account of one Law and exe- 
cute another Law upon us, of which, according to your 
own Manner, we were never convicted as the Law ex- 
presses. J£ you had sent us upon the Account of your 
new Law, we should have expected the Gaoler's Order 
to have been on that Account, which that it was not, 
appears by the Warrant which we have, and the Pun- 
ishment which we bare, as four of us were whipped, 
among whom was one that had formerly been whipt, so 
now also, according to your former Law. Priends, let 
it not be a small Thing in your Eyes, the exposing, as 
much as in you lies, our families to Riiin. 

" It's not unknown to you, the Season, and the Time 
of the Year, for those that live of Husbandry, and what 
their Cattle and Families may be exposed unto; and 
also such as live on Trade. 

" We know if the Spirit of Christ did dwell and rule 
in you, these Things would take Impression upon your 
Spirits. 

" What our Lives and Conversations have been, in 
that place is well known, and what we now suffer for, 
is much for false Keports and ungrounded Jealousies of 
Heresy and Sedition. These Things lie upon us to lay 
before you. As for our Parts, we have true Peace and 
Rest in the Lord in all our Sufferings, and are made 
willing in the Power and Strength of God, freely to 



Samuel Shattuck. 89 

offer up our Lives in this Cause of God, for which we 
suffer; Yea, and we do find, through Grace, the En- 
largements of God in our imprisoned Estate, to whom 
alone we commit ourselves and Families, for the dis- 
posing of us according to his infinite Wisdom and 
Pleasure, in whose Love is our Rest and Life. 

" Erom the House of Bondage in Boston, wherein we 
are made captives, by the Wills of Men, although made 
free by the Son of God, John VIII— 36. In which we 
quietly rest this 16*^ of the Fifth month 1658. 

" Laurence ^ 

" CaSSANDKA V SOUTHWICK. 
" JOSIAH, J 

" Samuel Shattuck. 
" Joshua Buffum." 



" On the 11th of the Third Month, 1659, the afore- 
said Laurence and Cassandra Southwick, their son 
Josiah, Samuel Shattuck, and others were called before 
the Court, and as they continued steadfast in what the 
governor was pleased to call rebellion against the 
Authority of the country the Sentence of Banishment 
was pronounced against them, and but a Fortnight's 
Time allowed for them to depart, on pain of Death, nor 
would they grant them any longer Time, though de- 
sired: So the said Samuel Shattuck, Mcholas Phelps, 
and Josiah Southwick were obliged to take an Oppor- 
tunity that presented four Days after to pass for Eng- 
land by Barbadoes. The aged couple Laurence and 
Cassandra went to Shelter Island where shortly after 



90 Early Settlers of Nantuclcet. 

they died within three Days of each other; and Joshua 
Buffum departed to Ehode Island." (Vol. II., page 
198.) 

Copy of the King^s Letter or Mandamus. 

" Trusty and Wellbeloved, we greet you well. Hav- 
ing been informed that several of our Subjects among 
you, called Quakers, have been and are imprisoned by 
you, whereof some have been executed, and others (as 
hath been represented unto us) are in Danger to im- 
dergo the Like: We have thought fit to signify our 
Pleasure, in that Behalf for the future, and do require, 
that if there be any of those People called Quakers 
amongst you, now already condemned to suffer Death, 
or other Corporal Punishment, or that are imprisoned, 
or obnoxious to the like Condemnation, you are to for- 
bear to proceed any farther, but that you forthwith 
send the said Persons (whether condemned or im- 
prisoned) over to this our Kingdom of England, to- 
gether with their respective Crimes or Offences laid to 
their Charge, to the End such Course may be taken 
with them here, as shall be agreeable to our Laws and 
their Demerits. And for so doing, these our Letters 
shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge. Given 
at our Court at Whitehall the 9*** Day of September 
1661 in the thirteenth year of our Reign." 

" Subscribed, To our Trusty and Welbeloved John 
Endicot Esq. and to all and every other the Governour 
or Governours of our Plantation of New England, and 
of the Colonies thereunto belonging, that now are or 



Samuel Sliattuck. 91 

hereafter shall be; And to all and every the Minister's 
and Officers of our said Plantation and Colonies what- 
ever within the Continent of New England. 

" By His Majesty's Command. 

" WiL. Morris." 

(Vol. IL, Page 225.) 

" In procuring the aforesaid Letter or Mandamus 
from the King, Edward Burroughs was a principle 
Instrument for when the ISTews of W. Leddra's Death 
came to the Ears of the Friends at London, and of the 
Danger many others of their Persuason were in, they 
were much concerned, especially the said Edward Bur- 
roughs, who speedily repaired to the Court and having 
got Access to the King's Presence, told him, There was 
a Vein of innocent Blood opened in his Dominiofis, 
which if it were not stopped might overrun all. To 
which the King replied, But I will stop that Vein. 
Then Burroughs desired him to do it speedily, for there 
was Danger of many others being soon put to Death. 

" The King answered. As speedy as you will and or- 
dered the Secretary to be called, and the Mandamus 
to be forthwith granted. 

" A few Days after Edward Burroughs went again 
to the King, desiring Dispatch of the Business. The 
King said, lie had no present Occasion to send a Ship 
thither, but if they would send one, they might as soon 
as they would. 

" The King also granted his Deputation to Samuel 
Shattock who had been banished thence, to carry his 
Mandamus to New England. 

" Whereupon an Agreement was made with Ralph 



93 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Goldsmith, one of the said People called Quakers, and 
Master of a good Ship, for 300Z to sail forthwith. 

" He immediately prepared for his Voyage and in 
about six weeks arrived in Boston Harbor, on a First- 
day of the Week. 

" The Townsmen seeing a Ship with English Colours 
soon came on board and asked for the Captain. 

"Kalph Goldsmith told them he was the Com- 
mander. They asked. Whether he had any Letters? 
He answered. Yes. But withal told them, He would not 
deliver them that Day. 

" So they returned on shore again, and reported, that 
There were many Quakers come, and that Samuel Shat- 
tuck (who they knew had been banished on pain of 
Death) was among them. 

" But they knew nothing of his Errand or Authority. 

" Thus all was kept close, and none of the Ship's 
Company suffered to go on shore that Day. 

" Next morning Ealph Goldsmith the Commander, 
with Samuel Shattuck, the King's Deputy, went on 
shore, and sending the Boat back to the Ship, they two 
went directly through the Tovm to the Governour's 
House, and knockt at the Door: He sending a Man to 
know their Business, they sent Him Word, that their 
Message was from the King of England, and that they 
would deliver it to none but himself. 

" Then they were admitted to go in, and the Gov- 
ernour came to them and commanded Samuel Shat- 
tuck's Hat to be taken off, and having received the 
Deputation and the Mandamus, he laid off his own Hat, 
and ordering Shattuck's Hat to he given him again, 
perused the Papers, and then went out to the Deputy- 



Samuel Shattuck. 93 

Governour's, bidding the King's Deputy and the Mas- 
ter of the Ship to follow him: Being come to the 
Deputy-Governour's and having consulted him, he re- 
turned to the aforesaid two Persons, and said. We shall 
obey his Majesty's Command. 

"After this the Master of the Ship gave Liberty to 
his Passengers to come on shore, which they did and 
had a religious Meeting with their Friends of the Town, 
where they returned Praises to God for his Mercy man- 
ifested in this wonderful Deliverance. 

" Not long after the following order at Boston was 
issued: 

" To William Salter Keeper of the Prison at Boston. 

" You are required, by Authority and Order of the 
General-Court forthwith to release and discharge the 
Quakers who at present are in your Custody: See that 
you dont neglect this. 

" By Order of the Court 

" Edwaed Rawson, Secretary. 
" Boston the 9th of 
December, 1G61." 

To the instrumentality of Samuel Shattuck, aided by 
Edward Burroughs, is due the discontinuance, for a 
time at least, of one of the most iniquitous persecutions 
ever carried on, instigated by those who themselves had 
suffered for conscience' sake. Whipping and imprison- 
ment were later resorted to, but never to the same 
extent. 

With this mandate from the king, Samuel Shattuck 
was safe to live thereafter a peaceable life in Salem. 



94 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

The usual character accorded to the early settlers of 
New England for extraordinary Christian names is ex- 
emplified by a son Retire and a daughter Return, men- 
tioned in records of Samuel Shattuck. These were sup- 
posed to be commemorative of his banishment and re- 
turn. 

These two children probably died young, as in the 
division of the property they are not mentioned; at all 
events the names have not descended. 

Whittier, in characteristic manner, describes the in- 
terview between Governor Endicott and Samuel Shat- 
tuck. 



The door swung open and Rawson the clerk 

Entered, and whispered under breath, 
" There waits below for the hangman's work 

A fellow banished on pain of death — 
Shattuck, of Salem, unhealed of the whip, 
Brought over in Master Goldsmith's ship 
At anchor here in a Christian port. 
With freight of the devil and all his sort! " 

Twice and thrice on the chamber floor 

Striding fiercely from wall to wall, 
" The Lord do so to me and more," 

The Governor cried, " if 1 hang not all! 

Note. — In Besse's History is an account of the death of Wil- 
liam Robinson, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Leddra, and 
Mary Dyer, who suffered martyrdom by hanging in Boston in 
1660 for their firm adherence to the principles of truth as pro- 
fessed by Friends. Wenlock Christisen was under sentence of 
death when Samuel Shattuck returned from England bearing the 
mandamus from King Charles Second requiring the release of 
all Friends from prison. 



Samuel Shattuck. 95 

Bring hither the Quaker." Calm, sedate, 
With the look of a man at ease with fate. 
Into that presence, grim and dread 
Came Samuel Shattuck, with hat on head. 

" Off with the knave's hat ! " An angry hand 
Smote down the offence; but the wearer said. 

With a quiet smile, " By the king's command 
I bear his message, and stand in his stead." 

In the Governor's hand a missive he laid, 

With the royal arms on its seal displayed. 

And the proud man spake as he gazed thereat, 

Uncovering, " Give Mr. Shattuck his hat." 

He turned to the Quaker, bowing low, — 

"The King commandeth your friends' release; 

Doubt not he shall be obeyed, although 
To his subjects' sorrow and sin's increase. 

What he here enjoineth, John Endicott, 

His loyal servant, questioneth not. 

You are free! God grant the spirit you own 

May take you from us to parts unknown." 

With its gentler mission of peace and good will, 
The thought of the Quaker is living still. 
And the freedom of soul he prophesied 
Is gospel and law where the martyrs died. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THOMAS MAYHEW AND THOMAS MAYHEW, JR. 

That Thomas Mayhew was a proprietor of Nan- 
tucket has been previously shown. He selected " his 
Sonne " Thomas Mayhew, Jr., as his associate. 

It is probable that Thomas Mayhew, St., never had 
more than a business connection with ISTantucket, but 
one of his descendants married a descendant of Peter 
Folger. 

Thomas Mayhew was born early in 1592, and was a 
merchant of Southampton, England, but emigrated to 
America in 1633 or 1634, was admitted a freeman May 
14, 1634, and early in 1635 settled at Watertown, Mas- 
sachusetts, where he o^vned mills purchased of Mr. 
Cradock, and a farm; he was at one time proprietor of 
the Oldham farm. He was a selectman from 1637 to 
1643, and a representative to the General Court from 
1636 to 1644. 

In 1641 he obtained a grant of Martha's Vineyard, 
and sent there his son Thomas and several other persons 
who settled at Edgartown. (History of Watertown.) 
He himself did not move to Martha's Vineyard until 
1644 or 1645. 

Note. — William C. Folger's MS. says, " The first Mayhew 
known in England was Simon, who went there in 1000 a.d. from 
Normandy, settled in County of Wiltshire, and from Wiltshire 
came Thomas Mayhew to America." 



Thomas Mayhew. 97 

Whether he brought any other children from Eng- 
land has not been ascertained. 

Cotton Mather says of him, — 

" The worshipful Thomes Mayhew in the year 1641 
obtained a grant of Martha's Vineyard, ISTantucket and 
Elizabeth Isles to make a settlement. 

" His son Mr Thomas Mayhew in the year 1642 
settl'd at Martha's Vineyard with a few other Inhabi- 
tants where his Reputation for Piety, his Natural Gifts, 
besides the acquir'd by his Education (having attained 
no small knowledge in the Latin and Greek tongues; 
and being not wholly a stranger to the Hebrew) soon 
occasioned his Call to the Ministry among that handful. 

" In 1647 he intended a short voyage for England, 
but alas, the ship wherein he took passage was never 
heard of." 

Of Thomas Mayhew, the governor, he says, — 

" I have already told my Reader that the Govern- 
ment of this People was the best (of all Governments) 
Monarchy; and it has been Judged not without Reason, 
that a main Obstruction in the Progress of the Gospel 
in the American Plantation, was, if not yet is, the 
Jealousie the Princes conceiv'd of the Invasion of their 
Government through the Pretences of Religion and the 
Eclipsing their Monarchical Dignity. 

" Mr Thomas Mayhew therefore finding that the 
Princes of these Islands, who although they maintained 
their Absolute Power and Jurisdiction as Kings, were 
yet bound to do certain Homage to a Potent Prince on 
the Continent ; and although they were no great People, 
yet had been wasted in Indian Wars, wherein the Great 
Princes on the Continent (not unlike European Princes 



98 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

for like Reasoiis of State) were not unassisting, whereby 
they were necessitated to make these Princes the Bal- 
ance to decide their Controversies, and several Jurisdic- 
tions, by Presents annually sent, whereby obliging the 
Princes to give their several Assistance as Occasion 
requir'd. 

" And seeing his son, as aforesaid, in a Zealous En- 
deavor for their Conversion he judged it meet that 
Moses and Aaron joyn Hands. 

" He therefore prudently lets them know, that by 
Order from his Master the King of England, he was 
to govern the English which should inhabit these 
Islands ; 

" That his Master was in Power far above any of the 
Indian Monarchs; but that as he was Powerful so was 
he a great Lover of Justice : 

" That therefore he would in no measure invade their 
Jurisdiction but on the Contrary assist them as Need 
required : 

" That Eeligion and Government w^ere distinct 
Things. 

" Thus in no long time they conceiv'd no ill Opinion 
of the Christian Religion." (B VI., Magnalia Section 
III.) 

In closing the history of Thomas Mayhew's Govern- 
ment he says, — 

" I shall close the whole when I have told the 
Header that their Children are generally taught to 
Read and Write. 

" In one of their towns last winter ^dz: 1693, thirty 
Children were at school, twenty more of the same place, 
accidentally, being not supplied with books could not 
attend to it. 



Thomas MayJiew. 99 

" Such who are too far distant from any school are 
often taught by some of their neighbors; in diver3 
places there are lesser schools." 

Thomas May hew, Jr., left three sons (who subse- 
quently assumed a leading part in the affairs of these 
islands.) These sons were named Thomas, John, and 
Matthew. 

To his grandchildren Thomas Mayhew alludes in a 
postscript of a letter to Governor Edmond Andros : * 

" May it please yo"" Hono"" to image what I have on 
these Islands 

Graund Sonnes 15 

My sonnes sonnes sonnes 3 

Daughters 3 

Graund Daughters 11 

32 

" I prayfe God two of my Grand-sons does preach 
to English and Indians, Matthew sometimes to the 
younge." 

Thomas, the grandson, died in 1715, and John in 
1689, aged thirty-seven years. 

Experience Mayhew, a minister, author of '' Indian 
Converts or Some Account of the Lives and Dyeing 
Speeches of Christianized Indians of Martha's Vine- 
yard in New England," published in London, 1727, was 
a son of John Mayhew. 

Jonathan Mayhew, who was born in Martha's Vine- 
yard, October 8th, 1720, and died in Boston, July 9, 
1766, was a clergyman and an advocate of liberalism; 
he was a son of Experience Mayhew. 

* N. Y. Col. MSS., xxiv., Secretary's Office. 

L.C. ^. 




V ALL TUE WAY TO SHE AESM© PEM"v 



CHAPTER XIII. 

CUSTOMS, DOCUMENTS AND INCIDENTS OF NANTUCKET. 

By early custom, all land on ISTantiicket, not set aside 
for homesteads, was held in common by proprietors, 
numbering twenty-seven, when the custom was estab- 
lished. 

As time went on the number of proprietors increased, 
and by sale or inheritance the holdings of individuals 
were divided, and varied according to circumstances. 

An acre and a half of land appears to have been origi- 
nally the equivalent of a " sheep's common "; the area 
of a " cow's common " was eight times that of a sheep, 
and a " horse common " contained twice the area of a 
" cow's common." 

After nearly a century and a half, and early in the 
nineteenth century, some individuals, wishing to hold 
their lands in severalty, petitioned to the organization 
of proprietors, but the end was not accomplished in this 
way. The case was carried to the Courts, and after 



** Shearing Day.'' 



Customs, Documents and Incidents. 101 

several years of litigation was decided in favor of the 
petitioners, and bj application to the judicial Court 
an owner could have his boundaries defined by commis- 
sioners appointed to set off his portion; in this way 
many titles have been secured. 

The undivided lands continued to be held in common. 
On these commons the flocks and herds grazed 
throughout the year, until " Shearing Day/' when, by 
their marks, the sheep were sorted and taken by their 
several owners to that portion of the island set apart 
for the gala occasion, which always attended the annual 
clipping. 

Here were " washing ponds " and " sheep pens," and 
as the time for " shearing " approached booths were put 
up and stored with things to eat, which usually charac- 
terize a festivity of this kind. 

• There were at times from seven to ten thousand 
sheep on the commons, and the wool which the annual 
shearing afforded, furnished the homespun blankets and 
materials for clothing, which satisfied the simple de- 
mands of early days in Nantucket, as in other Colonial 
tov^Tis. 

The following unique contract is from ISTew York 
State Records, Deed I., Y4, Secretary's Office, Albany, 
and bears date of " March 22, 16^^." 

Richard Gardner had " granted to him haKe accom- 
modacons, according to the Grants made to seamen and 
Tradesmen, upon condition that hee exercise himself e 
as a Sea-man, and that he come to Inhabitt here with 
his ffamily before the End of May — 68 — And after 
that his Entrance here, not to depart the Island in 



103 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Point of dwelling for the space of three Years upon the 
Forfeiture of the Grant aforesaid." 

In memoranda of William C. Folger, published in 
^Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, in 1862, is the fol- 
lowing : 

" Joseph Gardner the eldest son of Mr Kichard Gard- 
ner had half a share of land on l^antucket Granted 
him 15th of February 16G7. In consideration of which 
he was to supply the occasions of the Island in the way 
of a Shoe Maker and not leave the island for the space 
of four years." 

The same account says: "Richard Gardner's Will 
gave to Joseph, eldest son, twice as much as to his other 
children who were left share and share alike." 

Among old wills and deeds one often finds very 
amusing clauses, and generally the care of the unmar- 
ried women of the family was assured by the will of a 
parent. 

The following extract from the will of Francis Macy 
is one of many instances; it was expected that other 
members of the family would supplement the pro- 
vision for shelter by caring for daily needs : 

" I give unto my Daughter Deborah Macy the south 
west chamber of my Dwelling houfe, so long as she 
Remains single; But if she should marry my will is 
that it Return to my sun francis." 

Inventories were very exact, in some instances going 
so carefully into detail as to cover the amount of gin- 
gerbread in the closet. 

No provision closet was well ordered unless stocked 



Customs, Documents and Incidents. 103 

with gingerbread, and for grand occasions doughnuts, 
and later " wonders," as the richer " cruller " was 
called. " Wonder " was a local term, and it is easy to 
fancy how such a name might originate if some good- 
wife produced an especially good article. 

Recipes were known by the names of those who first 
prepared the viands they described, and manuscript 
copies of them were handed down from generation to 
generation. 

The following are among the earliest recorded wills: 

PROBATE RECORDS 
FOR THE COUNTY OF NANTUCKET. 

Book A, 'Ro. 1, p. 4. 

The Probate of the Will of Edward Cartwrite de- 
ceased and administration granted thereon vnto his 
Widow Elizabeth Cartwrite Sole Executrix in the Same 
Will named Second day of October in the year of our 
Lord one thoufand Seven hundred and Six Before me 
at Sherbourn in I^antucket 

Peter Folger James Coffin 

will of edward cartwright. 
pp. 4 and 6. 

In the IsTame of God Amen: the 28 day of August 
1705 I Edward Cartright of Nantucket in the Province 
of Massachusetts Bay in ISTew England being very Sick 
and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory 
thanks be to God: therefore calling unto mind the mor- 
tallity of my body and knowing it is apointed for all 
men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will 



104 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

and testament that is to say first of all I give and reco- 
mend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and 
my body I recomend to the earth to be buried in decent 
maner at the discretion of my Executrix and as touch- 
ing such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God 
to blefs me in this life I give demise and dispose of the 
same in the following maner and form 

Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my Son Nicholas 
Cartright one third part of my lands on pocomook that 
end where his houfe now stands mth one third part of 
my Meadow Item I give to my Son Sampson Cartright 
one third part of my land on pocomok that end whereon 
his house now stands with one third part of my Meadow 
Item I give to my Son Edward Cartright one half part 
of the remaining third of my land and Meadow with 
the one half of my dwelling houfe after my deceafe and 
after the death of his Mother the other Sixth part of 
my land and Meadow with the other half of my houfe 

Item I give to my daughter Sufanna Cartright forty 
shillings at the day that She is married Item I give to 
my daughter Mary Cartright forty shillings at the day 
that she is married 

Item I give and bequeath to My beloved Wife Eliza- 
beth the one half of my dwelling houfe mth the other 
Sixth part of my land and Meadow during her natural 
life I like wife confstitute Make and ordain Elizabeth 
my beloved vdf e my Sole Executrix of this my last will 
and testament ratifying and confirming this and no 
other to be my laft will and teftament In witnefs 
whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day 
and year above written 

Edward Cartright [Seal] 



Customs, Documents and Incidents. 105 

Signed Sealed Published 
pronounced and declared 
by the S<^ Edward Cartright 
as his laft Will & Testament 
in the prefence of us 

the Subscribers 

William Gayer 

Richard Gardner 

Anne Bunker 

/ probate records 
for the county of nantucket. 

Book A, ^0. 1, p. 25. 

The probate of the will of William Gayer deceased 
and administration granted thereon unto his Daughters 
Damaris Coffin and Dorcas Starbuck Jo^iit Executrices 
in the same will named, twenty fourth day of October 
1710. James Coffin 

Eleazer Folger Reg"" Jug of probats 

WILL OF WILLIAM GAYER. 

p. 26. 

I W^illiam Gayer of the Island of Xantucket in the 
province of the Mafsachusets Bay in New England be- 
ing Sick and weak in body but of Sound mind and mem- 
ory do make & ordain this my last will and testament in 
manner and form following 

First I give and bequeath unto my son Wiliam Gayer 
one whole share of land on the Island of I^antucket 
with all the priviledges and appurtenances belonging 
to sd whole share of land (if my sd son shall ever come 



106 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

liither again) to have and Injoy tlie sd land to him & 
his heirs forever Item I give to my Daughter Damaris 
Coffin one Eighth part of a share of land on the Island 
of Nantucket of that land I had of my father in law 
Edward Starbiick with all the priviledges and appur- 
tenances belonging thereunto to have and to hold to her 
and her heirs forever 

Item I give my Daughter Dorcas Starbuck one 
Eighth part of a Share of land on the Island of Nan- 
tucket of that land I had of my fatlu r in lav/ Edward 
Starbuck with all the priviledges and appurtenances be- 
longing thereunto to have and to hold to her and her 
heirs forever I do also give my part of the Island of 
Miskeget to my sd Davghters Damaris Coffin and Dor- 
cas Starbuck Equally to be divided between them. 

Item I give to my housekeeper Patience Foot one 
cow & fourty sheep with Commonages for them as also 
half the barn & tryhouse with half the garden with 
the haK of the land and fence about my dwelling house 
and half the lot and fence that is towards Monomoy the 
horse pasture Excepted as also the west Chamber and 
Garret and half the leanto of my now dwelling house to 
hold and pofsefs the sd lands and other the premises to 
her the sd patience foot during her naturall life 

Item I give to Africa a negro once my Servant 
twenty Sheep and Commonage for them and for one 
horse as also the East Chamber of my now dwelling 
house and half the leanto and all the other half of my 
barn and tryhouse with the half of all the lands and 
fence about my house and the half of the lot towards 
Monomoy to hold all the sd lands and other the prem- 
ises to him the sd Africa during his naturall life and I 



Customs, Documents and Incidents. 107 

will that my Daughter Damaris Coffin Shall have the 
use of the rest of my Dwelling house if she should come 
hither to live 

Lastly I make and ordain my two Daughters 
Damaris Coffin and Dorcas Starbuck Joynt Executrices 
of this my last will and testament In witnei's whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and Seall this twenty first 
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred & ten 

William Gayer [Seal] 

Signed Sealed pronounced & 
declared by the sd William 
Gayer as his last will and testament 
in the presence of us the subscribers 

Richard Gardner 

Eleazer Folger Jun"" Eunice Gardner 

Jabez Bunker Judith Gardner 

Thackeray says, referring to the age of lung James^ 
" Spelling was not an article of general commodity in 
the world then." 

It is not positive evidence of illiteracy that at that 
early date spelling was inaccurate. The transition 
from Old English was not made in a hurry; and many 
years were to pass before the excellent rules and meth- 
ods of to-day were perfected. 

Persecution, which drove many to America, left 
them little with which to begin a new life ; and the hard- 
ships experienced offered no opportunity for mental im- 
provement. 

The men of those early Colonial days were shrewd 



108 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

enough in selecting localities for settling towns, and the 
women were helpmeets in doing what their hands 
found to do. What time had they to read beyond th© 
Bible which they brought with them, which few 
appear to have neglected? The documents of those 
times often have considerable merit in their directness. 
Considering the general improvement in English in 
the present day, it is a striking fact that deeds and other 
legal documents are not less verbose, and are quite as 
full of needless repetition as they were in Colonial 
days. 

One anecdote of the Civil War suggests itself. The 
strong good sense of the Quaker element which per- 
vaded Nantucket is here evident, as it has been on 
many other occasions in the history of the island. 

The defenceless position of iSTantucket has always 
been cause of alarm to its inhabitants in times of war, 
and ways and means of defence have been suggested 
from time to time. 

Any one who is familiar with its geographical posi- 
tion, however, will appreciate how impossible it would 
have been to have made a complete and efficient strong- 
hold, even at that time, when the long range of mod- 
ern ordnance had not been arrived at. 

During the Civil War a town meeting was called to 
consider the wisdom of placing two brass cannon on the 
North Cliff shore, looking toward the harbor. 

It was the custom of the Quakers of Nantucket to 
let town meetings alone. They often could not approve 
their action, and, as they felt, removed their responsi- 
bility by non-attendance. 



The Old Grist Mill. 



Customs, Documents and Incidents. 109 

The particular town meeting in question was, how- 
ever, a challenge to the non-combatant members of the 
Society of Friends. 

One of them told the writer of the discomfiture of 
the keen advocates of defence, when the body of 
Friends appeared. 

The narrator was a staunch " Quaker of the olden 
time, calm and firm and true." 

As he approached the old Town Hall (which lives in 
history only) he was met by a warlike nephew, who 
said: " Why, Uncle , I thought you never at- 
tended the Town Meetings," to which the Friend re- 
plied: "I have reserved the privilege, and," he 
added, " the movement to place the cannon on CliS 
Shore was voted down, a movement which would have 
been ridiculous, if our principles had nothing to do 
with it, and would have been no defence at all." 

At all times, after the earliest settlement, notwith- 
standing the inaccessibility of the island, intercourse 
was frequent between the citizens of Sherburne and 
those of the " main-land " ; however, many lived to a 
good old age without leaving the island. 

A notable instance was in the life of one of Nsm- 
tucket's respected citizens, who died in 1886, at the 
age of eighty-four, and once only left his native island. 

He was sixty-seven years of age when he finally 
yielded to the entreaties of his friends, and went with 
a party to Xew Bedford, and from there to Fall River. 

While at Fall River he noticed one of the Sound 
steamers, the Bay State, at the wharf. It was a larger 
steamer than he had seen, and he was greatly impressed 



110 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

with its magnificence. Captain Brown was very 
anxious to take him to New York and show him that 
great metropolis; he tendered him the finest state room 
on the boat, but all persuasions were unavailing. Our 
aged friend said he had already seen " more than he 
could realize " (a local use of the word), that he was a 
long way from home, and declared, " that if he ever lived 
to get back to I^antucket he would never leave the island 
again." 

This is one of many anecdotes that might be told 
illustrating the contentment of the quiet folk who in- 
habited I^antucket in earlier days; they generally lived 
long and were useful, satisfied with the sphere in which 
circumstances had placed them, emphasizing by their 
lives their belief that 

God gives to every man. 
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 
That lifts him into life and lets him fall 
Just in the niche he was ordained to fill. 

If, with the broader experience of to-day, we do not 
accept in full this creed of our ancestors, we may not 
be happier than they. 




Watching for Wfialeships. 




CHAPTER XIV. 



AN EXPLANATION OF THE NEUTRAL POSITION OF NANTUCKET 
DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 



The wisdom of neutrality in ISTantucket during the 
Revolutionary War was probably never questioned by a 
native of the island, but among their descendants it has 
been far different; they have doubted the patriotism of 
a people who could refrain from taking decided ground 
when so much was at stake. 

To make the position of Nantucket at that time per- 
fectly plain, one must go back to the latter part of the 
Seventeenth Century and follow closely the history of 
its fishing interests, and consider the toil of building up 
a business which would have been absolutely ruined had 
the islanders boldly taken sides with the Colonists. 

Very early in its history the people of the island had 
undertaken whale fishing. Whales were plentiful along 
the coasts, small boats only were used in the cap- 
ture of them, the fishermen venturing short distances 
from the shore and returning to their homes each 
night; by degrees they grew bolder, and undertook 



112 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

longer voyages; the number of vessels and of seamen 
increased 

Until to every wind of heaven 
Nantucket's sails were spread. 

The following statistics, found in a report made to 
Congress by Thomas Jefferson in 1775, show how large 
a proportion of the Massachusetts income from " whal- 
ing " may be credited to Nantucket : 
For Massachusetts there were employed 
304 vessels, 
27,840 tonnage, 
4,059 seamen, 
returning about 47,040 barrels of oil. 

In which Nantucket was accredited with 
150 vessels, 
15,070 tonnage, 
2,025 seamen, 
30,000 barrels of oil. 
About the year 1771 the gathering clouds on the 
political horizon made the more timid question seriously 
the wisdom of continuing their business. 

French privateers were often encountered. Ship 
owners lost heavily in consequence, and in view of these 
depredations many heads of families began to cast about 
for means of livelihood attended with less risk than that 
of following the seas. 

At first Nantucket had sent oil to England througk 
other ports. At the time preceding the Revolution 
trade was carried on to a considerable extent directly 
with London, and if the threatened storm were to break, 
it may readily be imagined to what peril would be sub- 



Neutrality During Revolution. 113 

Jected the only industry wliicli had brought gain and 
comparative wealth to Nantucket. 

After deliberate weighing of the matter, a large num- 
ber of citizens removed to North Carolina, thence to 
Indiana and Ohio; also to Maine, and New Bedford, 
Massachusetts ; and quite a company united with Provi- 
dence and Martha's Vineyard, in locating and settling 
the city of Hudson. 

Articles of agreement were there drawn up by the 
Proprietors, and the settlement was inaugurated on 
much the same plan as that which more than a century 
before had been adopted in the settlement of Nan- 
tucket. 

Thomas Jenkins, a native of Nantucket, was a 
pioneer in the Hudson movement, and to him largely is 
due the credit of what proved a successful venture. 

The names of Nantucket proprietors of the Hudson 
settlement were as follows : 

Thomas Jenkins. 

Joseph Barnard 

Stephen Paddack. 

Charles Jenkins. 

Gideon Gardner. 

Reuben Folger. 

Alexander Coffin. 

Benjamin Hussey, 

Shubael Worth. 

Paul Hussey. 

Benjamin Folger. 

Benjamin Starbuck. 

John Cartwright. 



114 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

In spite of the exodus from ISTantucket to the points 
above named, a considerable number remained and took 
chances, which, on the breaking out of the war, resulted 
disastrously. Many of their ships were seized by Eng- 
lish men-of-war, and the problem by which they were 
confronted was a serious one; they could not readily 
turn their attention to agriculture, the soil was sterile, 
and money not at hand to make it otherwise ; manufac- 
tures were out of the question, as the raw materials 
would have to be brought from the mainland across the 
Vineyard Sound,* and would be subject to danger from 
the Royal I^avy. 

To meet the extremity a committee composed of 
Benjamin Tupper, Timothy Folger,f William Rotch 
and Samuel Starbuck was sent to ISTewport and N^ew 
York to interview the British Commanders, and the 
following agreement was arrived at : " That depreda- 
tions should cease provided the town of Nantucket 
would observe strict neutrality." 

A powerful factor in their non-partisanship or neu- 
trality was the spirit of non-resistance fostered by 
Quakerism, which was a very widely prevailing religion 
on the island at that time. 

* Vineyard Sound was that portion of the Atlantic Ocean which 
lies north of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, between them 
and the mainland, and was a great highway for vessels plying 
between England and America. 

I Timothy Folger, son of Abishai, son of Nathan, son of Elea- 
zer, son of Peter Folger, was a merchant and magistrate at Nan- 
tucket prior to and during the Revolution. After peace was es- 
tablished he removed to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; afterwards to 
Milford Haven, Wales, where he was merchant and American 
Consul. 



"- .;.-«-'5'2k-TT?»> ■ 



Timothy Fo/ger. 

Phoiographed j'ro7it,a Painting 'Jf^'t^Georg, Fish, afUr Copley. 



Neutrality During Revolution. 115 

After arrangements with the English were com- 
pleted, the American Colonists, believing that persis- 
tency in fitting out whaling vessels, and the protection 
which was given them, indicated loyalty to the Crown, 
themselves opened warfare upon the Nantucket ships. 

" A tovni meeting was convened on the 25th of Sep- 
tember, 1782, and a memorial prepared and adopted 
which was sent to the General Court of Massachusetts." 

Referring to this, Mr. Alexander Starbuck says: 
" They urged that people in continental towns, where 
the broad country opened to them a place for retreat, 
could have but faint ideas of the suffering of those who 
were constantly liable to hostile invasion and whose in- 
sular position precluded all thought of escape." 

They scorned the imputation that they had sought 
neutrality because of sympathy with England. 

Doubtless tories were in about the same proportion 
upon the island as in other places throughout the coun- 
try, but there were many citizens loyal to the interests 
of the American Colonies. 

That portion of the petition which referred to the 
prosecution of their business reads as follows: 

" We now beg leave to throw a few hints before you 
respecting the Whalefishery, as a matter of great im- 
portance to this Commonwealth. This place before the 
War, was the First in that branch of business, & em- 
ployed more than One Hundred Sail of good Vessels 
therein which furnish'd a support not only for Five 
Thousand Inhabitants here, but for Thousands else- 
where, no place so well adapted for the good of the 
Community at large as ISTantucket, it being destitute of 
every material necessary in the Business, and the In- 



116 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

habitants might he called Factors for the Continent 
rather than Principals; as the war encreased the Fish- 
ery ceased, until necessity obliged us to make trial the 
last Year, with about seventeen sail of Vessels, Two of 
which were captured & carried to New York,* and one 
was burnt the others made saving voyages. The present 
Year we employed about Twenty Four sail in the same 
business, which have mostly Compleated their Voy- 
ages, but with little success; & a great loss will ensue; 
this we apprehend is greatly owing to the circumscribed 
situation of the Fishery; we are now fully sensible that 
it can no longer be pursued by us unless we have free 
liberty both from Great Britain & America to fish 
without interruption. 

" As we now find One of our Vessels is captured & 
carried to New York, but without any oil on board, 
and Two others have lately been taken & carried into 
Boston & Salem, under pretense of having double 
papers on board, (Nevertheless we presume the Cap- 
tors will not say that any of our Whalemen have gone 
into New York during the season as such a charge 
would have no foundation in Truth.) 

" And if due attention is not paid to this valuable 
branch, which if it was viewed in all its parts, perhaps 
would appear the most advantageous, of any possess'd 
by this Government, it will be intirely lost, if the War 
continues: We view it with regret & mention it with 
Concern, & from the gloomy prospect now before us, 
we apprehend many of the Inhabitants must quit the 
Island, not being able even to provide Necessaries for 

* Then in possession of the English. 



Neutrality During Revolution. 117 

the approaching Winter: some will retreat to the Con- 
tinent & set down in the Western Governments; and 
the Most Active in the Fishery will most probably go 
to distant Countries, where they can have every en- 
couragement, by Nations who are eagerly wishing to 
embrace so favorable an opportunity to accomplish 
their desires; which will be a great loss to the Conti- 
nent in general, but more to this Government in par- 
ticular. 

" We beg leave to impress the consideration of this 
important subject, not as the judgment of an insignifi- 
cant few, but of a Town which a few Years since stood 
the Third in Eank (if we mistake not) in bearing the 
Burthens of Government; It was then populous and 
abounded with plenty, it is yet populous, but is covered 
with poverty. 

" Your Memorialists have made choice of Samuel 
Starbuck, Josiah Barker, William Rotch, Stephen Hus- 
sey and Timothy Folger, as their Committee who can 
speak more fully to the several matters Contain'd in 
this Memorial, or any other thing that may concern this 
County, to whom we desire to refer you. 

" Signed in behalf of the Town by 

" Feederick Folgee, 

" Town Clerk." 



This memorial was referred to a committee made up 
of representatives from the Massachusetts Senate and 
House, who in their turn referred it to Congress. 

Mr. Starbuck says that " in addition to the action 
of the General Court, the town also sent William 



118 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Eotch and Samuel Starbuck to Philadelphia to inter- 
cede personally in the matter." 

Finally permits were granted and duly delivered. So 
much diplomacy and time were required to accomplish 
this, that when the permits were received the fleet was 
spent, and little profit was to be had from carrying on 
the business. The agreement of neutrality, however, 
was conscientiously carried out, and Nantucket strug- 
gled through the war, and experienced considerable 
prosperity after the proclamation of peace, which fol- 
lowed very closely on the negotiations mth the General 
Court. 

The whaling interests were renewed, but New Bed- 
ford had made great advance in her effort to secure con- 
trol of the business. Gradually the number of vessels 
owned on the island grew less, and ultimately the in- 
habitants of Nantucket abandoned whale fishing alto- 
gether, and turned their attention to other pursuits. 

The bustle and activity of the early times, the quiet 
calm about the place to-day, the decaying wharves and 
condition of business on the island are fittingly de- 
scribed in Mr. Arthur Ketchum's beautiful sonnet: 

Adrift in taintless seas she dreaming lies, 
The island city, timeworn now and grey. 
Her dark wharves ruinous, where once there lay 

Tall ships at rest from far sea industries. 

The busy hand of trade no longer plies 

Within her streets. In quiet court and way 
The grass has crept —and sun and shadows play 
Beneath her elms, in changing traceries ; 

Note. — One hundred and thirty-four whaling vessels belonging 
to Nantucket fell a prey to the English, and it is estimated that 
twelve hundred Nantucket men, mostly whalemen, were captured 
or perished during the Revolution. 



Neutrality During Revolution. 



119 



The years have claimed her theirs, and the still peace 
Of wind and sun and mist, blown thick and white 

Has folded her. The voices of the seas 

Through many a soft, bright day and brooding night 

Have wrought her silence, wide as they and deep; 

And dreaming of the past, she waits — asleep. 





CHAPTER XV. 

EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS OF THOMAS CHALKLEY, JOHN" 

RICHARDSON AND THOMAS STORY, GIVING SOME 

ACCOUNT OF THE RISE OF FRIENDS 

ON NANTUCKET. 



Thomas Chaxkley, after alluding to visits in " the 
eaftern part of New-England," says: 

" From thence I returned in order to get a paffage 
to the ifle of ISTantucket; and from a place called Cufh- 
net, we failed over to the faid ifland in about ten hours, 
where we tarried feveral days and had five meetings. 
The people did generally acknowledge to the truth, and 
many of them were tender-hearted. Some of the an- 
cient people faid. That it was never known that fo 
many people were together on the ifland at once. Af- 
ter the firft meeting was over, one afked the minifter 
(fo called) whether we might have a meeting at his 
houfe ? He faid with a good will, we might. This 
minifter had some difcourfe with me and afked, What 
induced me to come hither, being fuch a young man? 



'John Richardsans Meeting. 



Bise of Friends on Nantucket. 121 

I told him that I had no other view in coming there, 
than the good of fouls; and that I could fay with the 
apoftle that a neceffity was laid upon me, and wo 
would be to me if I did not preach the gofpel. Then, 
faid he, I wifh you would preach at my houf e in God's 
name. So next day we had a meeting at his houfe; and 
on the firft day we had the largeft meeting that we 
had on the ifland. It was thought there were above 
two hundred people. The Lord in his power did make 
his truth known to the praife of his name. Oh! how 
was my foul concerned for that people ! The Lord 
Jefus did open my heart to them, and theirs to him. 
They were alf o loving and kind to us. The chief mag- 
if trat of the ifland defired that I would have a meet- 
ing at his houfe; there being no fettled meeting of 
Friends before I came; and after meeting he difputed 
about religion with me. I thought we were both but 
poor difputants ; and I cannot remember all that paf f ed 
between us, but that in the clofe of our difpute, he 
faid, I difputed with your friends in Barbadoes and 
they told me, that we muft eat the fpiritual flefh, and 
drink the fpiritual blood of Chrift; 

" And, faid the Governor, did ever any one hear of 
such flefh and blood; for is it not a contradiction in na- 
ture that flefh and blood should be fpiritual ? 

" O f urely, said I, the Governor has forgot himf elf ; 
for what flefh and blood was that which Chrift faid, 
except ye eat my flefh and drink my blood ye have no 
life in you. . . . 

" And from that time forward they have continued a 
meeting, and there is now a meeting-houfe, and a 
yearly meeting for worfhip; it is a growing meeting to 



122 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

this day, and feveral public friends are raifed up 
amongft them who preach the gofpel of Chrift freely. 

" At this time a friend was convinced, whofe name 
was Starbuck, who became very ferviceable, and lived 
and died an eminent minifter of Chrift on that ifland. 
Several fcores of them came and accompanied us to the 
water-fide; and when we embarked on board our 
floop, they defired that I would come and vifit them 
again." 

John Kichardson says, " It was much with me, 
when on Rhode Island to visit Nantucket, where there 
were but very few * Friends. . . . 

" We landed safe, and as we went up an Ascent we 
saw a great many people looking towards the Sea, for 
great Fear had possess'd them, that our Sloop was a 
French Sloop loaded with Men and Arms, who were 
coming to invade the Island; I held out my Arms and 
told them, I knew not of any worse Arms than these 
on board. 

" They said, they were glad it was no worse, for they 
had intended to have alarmed the Island, it being a 
time of war. I told the good-like People, for so they 
appear'd to me, That Peleg Slocum near Rhode 
Island, was Master of the Sloop, and that we came to 
visit them in the Love of God, if they would be willing 

* The facts that Richard Gardner and his wife were persecuted 
for " attending Quaker meeting " in Salem, that they removed 
to Nantucket to escape that persecution, and that in 1673 he 
was commissioned Chief Magistrate there, indicate that his fam- 
ily was among the " few " and we find recorded also that Stephen 
Hussey and John Swain were Friends, before there was any or- 
ganization of Friends on the island. 



Eise of Friends on Nantucket. 123 

to let us have some Meetings, amongst them. They 
behaved themselves very courteously towards us and 
said, They thought we might. 

" We then enquired for IN^athaniel Starbuck, who 
we understood was in some degree convinced of the 
Truth, and having Directions to his House, we went 
thither and I told him. We made bold to come to his 
House, and if he was free to receive us we would stay 
a little with him, but if not, we would go elsewhere; 
for we heard he was a seeking religious Man and such 
chiefly we were come to visit; 

" He said. We were very welcome. And by this 
Time came in his Mother Mary Starbuck who the 
Islanders esteemed as a Judge among them for little 
of Moment was done there without her, as I under- 
stood. 

" At the first Sight of her it sprang in my Heart, 
To this Woman is the everlasting Love of God. I 
looked upon her as a Woman that bore some Sway in 
the Island, and so I said and that truly. We are come 
in the Love of God to visit you, if you are willing to 
let us have some Meetings among you: She said. She 
thought we might. . . . 

" The next Consideration was Where shall this meet- 
ing be ? She paused awhile and then said, I think at 
our House. 

" I from thence gathered she had an Husband, for I 
thought the Word our carried in it some Power be- 
sides her own, and I presently found he was with us: 

" I then made my Observation on him, and he ap- 
peared not a Man of mean Parts, but she so far ex- 
ceeded him in Soundness of Judgment, Clearness of 



124 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Understanding and an elegant Way of expressing her- 
seK, and that not in an affected Strain, but very natural 
to her, that it tended to lessen the Qualifications of her 
Husband. 

" The Meeting being agreed on and Care taken as 
to the Appointment of it, we parted, and I lay down to 
try if I could get any Sleep, . . . but Sleep vanished 
away from me, and I got up and walked to and fro in 
the Woods until the Meeting was mostly gathered. I 
was under a very great Load in my Spirit, but the 
Occasion of it was hid from me, but I saw it my Place 
to go to Meeting, the Order of which was such, in all 
the Parts thereof, I had not seen the like before; the 
large and bright rubbed Room was set with suitable 
Seats or Chairs, the Glass Windows taken out of the 
Frames and many Chairs placed without very con- 
veniently, so, that I did not see anything awanting, ac- 
cording to the Place, but something to stand on, for I 
was not free to set my Peet upon the fine Cane Chair, 
lest I should break it. 

" I am the more particular in this exact and exem- 
plary Order than in some other things, for the Seats 
both within and without Doors, were so placed that 
the Paces of the People were towards the Seats where 
the publick Priends sat, and when so set, they did not 
look or gaze in our Paces, as some I think are too apt 
to do, which in my Thoughts bespeaks an uncon- 
cerned Mind, The Meeting being thus gathered and 
Set down in this orderly and ample manner (although 
there were but very few bearing our ISTame in it) it 
was not long before the Mighty Power of the Lord 



Bise of Friends on Nantucket. 125 

began to work, and in it mj Companion * especially 
did appear in Testimony in the fore Part thereof. . . . 
I sat a considerable Time in the Meeting before I could 
see my Way clear to say anything, until the Lord's 
heavenly Power raised me and set me upon my Feet 
as if one had lifted me up, and what I had first in Com- 
mission to speak was in the words of Christ to Nico- 
demus, viz: Except a Man be born again, he cannot see 
the Kingdom of God: . . . 

"As I was thus opened, and delivering these Things 
with much more than I can remember, the great 
Woman I felt for most of an Hour together, fought 
and strove against the Testimony, sometimes looking 
up in my Face with a pale and then with a more ruddy 
Complexion; but the Strength of the Truth increased, 
and the Lord's mighty Power began to shake the 
People within and without Doors; but she who was 
looked upon as a Deborah by these People, was loth to 
lose her outside Religion, or the Appearance thereof; 
When she could no longer contain, she submitted to 
the Power of Truth, and the Doctrines thereof, and 
lifted up her Voyce and wept. 

" Oh ! then the universal Cry and Brokenness of 
Heart and Tears was wonderful ! From this Time I do 
not remember one Word that I spoke in Testimony, 
it was enough that I could keep upon the true Bot- 
tom, and not be carried away with the Stream above 
my Measure. ... I remember Peleg Slocum (before 
mentioned) said after this Meeting, that the like he 
was never at, for he thought the Inhabitants of the 

* James Bates, who was born in Virginia. 



126 Earlij Settlers of Nantucket. 

Island were shaken, and most of the People convinced 
of the Truth. However a great Convincement there 
was that Day, Mary Starbuck was one of the Number, 
and in a short Time after received a publick Testimony, 
as did also her son Nathaniel." 

It would appear from a journal of Thomas Story, 
who was at Nantucket three years later, in 1704, that 
there was no settled meeting of Friends until some- 
time after his visit, wherein he felt it required of him 
to lay his concern before Mary Starbuck as the " in- 
strument to bring it about." 

Thomas Story says, "" Before I proceed I think 
proper just to give a general Relation of the State of 
the People on the Island of Nantucket with respect to 
Religion at this Time. This small Island lies about 
20 Leagues from the main Land of New England, in- 
habited by a mixed People of Various Nations and 
some among them called christianized Indians, but no 
settled Teachers of any Kind. ... 

" There was in this Island one Nathaniel Starbuck, 
whose Wife was a wise discreet Woman, well read in 
the Scriptures, and not attached unto any Sect, but in 
great Reputation throughout the Island for her Knowl- 
edge in Matters of Religion, and an Oracle among 
them on that Account, insomuch that they would not 
do any Thing without her Advice and Content there- 



It would appear that several ministers of other re- 
ligious denominations had visited the island from time 
to time, and had desired a settled maintenance there. 



Rise of Friends on Nantucket. 137 

This was opposed by Mary Starbuck as " being con- 
trary to the practice of the Apostles and Primitives 
and the ISTature of the Maintenance of a Gospel Minis- 
try, but she would consent so far, as that when any 
Preacher came among them, that they liked and staid 
some Time, and took Pains among them, every Family 
might give unto such what they pleased for the Help 
of themselves and their Families, if they had any, as 
Indian Corn (Maze) or other grain. Meal, Flesh, Fish 
or such other Provisions as they happened to have at 
the Time to spare, and Wool &c for Cloathing, but 
nothing certain or settled: For Ministers of Christ 
ought to travel abroad in the World in that Calling, 
and not to sit down in one place, unless they have 
Families to take care of and cannot leave them. 

" And Some Time before this John Kinsey, one of 
our Ministers from Philadelphia, had been to visit 
them with good Acceptance and had good Service for 
Truth among them, and had been instrumental in the 
Hand of the Lord to beget a good liking in them to 
the Way of Truth, but received nothing from any of 
them, (for that is not our Way) on account of His 
Ministry; And I finding a like Concern at this Time 
and accompanied by Several Friends of both Sexes, we 
on the 13th Day of the Fifth month,* about the tenth 
Hour in the Morning, set Sail for the said Island in a 
Shallop belonging to our Friend Peleg Slocum, before 
mentioned, which under divine Providence, he himself 
chiefly conducted, and landed there the next Morning 
about six, 

* 1704. 



128 Uarly Settlers of Nantucket. 

" At our lauding we went up to the House of the 
Widow Mary Gardner where, after some Refreshment 
had, came to us Nathaniel Starbuck (Husband of Mary 
Starbuck before mentioned) and his son of the same 
name, and we proposed to them to have a Meeting that 
Day, but there being a court to sit then by Special 
Commission, ... we found it improper at that Time, 
and some of our Company went Home with Nathaniel 
Starbuck, the elder, and others with his Son, where 
we were kindly entertained, tho' Strangers, and they 
at that Time, not in the Profession of Truth with us. 

" On the 15th we had a Meeting at the House of 
Nathaniel Starbuck, the elder, which was pretty large 
and open, several of the People being tendered and 
generally satisfied with what they heard and felt of the 
Goodness and Mercy of God. 

" On the 16th being the First Day of the Week, w^e 
had another Meeting there, which was not so large as 
was expected, by reason of two Priests, an elderly Man 
and a young one, the first from the Isle of Showles, 
and the other from Martha's Vineyard, who had a 
Meeting near us, the former being come to try if he 
could obtain a settled Maintenance among that People. 

" And several being curious to hear this new 
Preacher in the Presbyterian Way, it made our Meet- 
ing something less than otherwise it might have been, 
yet it was considerably large, very open and encour- 
aging, for the good Presence of the Lord was with us." 

" Many of the Inhabitants of this Island are con- 
vinced of the Truth of some Points of the Doctrine of 
Truth, and some of them have been reached by the 
divine Virtue and Power of it, but some other Things 



Rise of Friends on Naniucket. 129 

they do not yet see, and, if there were no Cross, would, 
in all Appearance, come generally under our Profes- 
sion; some few are for a Priest and to allow him some 
Maintenance (for they walk not by Faith but Sight), 
but the Majority is against it. So that one of these 
not being able to effect his Purpose went Home in a 
few Days, but the other staid a little longer. . . . 

" This evening we ascended toward the upper Part 
of the Island to John Swains (one who came to our 
Meetings and there was only one more, that is Stephen 
Hussie, in all that Island under our name)." 



'' But one night before we returned from this Island 
my sleep was taken from me under a concern of mind 
for the Settlement of a Meeting there; (And though 
there were two Men under the Profession of Truth 
among them . . . the chief Instrument pointed to in 
my Thoughts, by the Truth, for this Service, when we 
should be gone was Mary Starbuck, before mentioned, 
to whom I made it known, and in the Opening and 
Mind of Truth laid a Charge upon her to endeavor to 
have a Meeting established in their Family once a week 
at least, to wait upon the Lord with all who were con- 
vinced of Truth in the ISTeighborhood, and in the Island 
as they had Conveniency. 

" This she received with Christian Gravity and it 
affected her much and became her Concern. 

" Having first mentioned it to the Friends who were 
with me I proposed it likewise to her Children (her 
Husband being freely passive only in such Things, and 
naturally good temper'd) who were all discreet young 



130 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Men and Women, most of them married and hopeful; 
being all convinced of Truth, they were ready to em- 
brace the Proposal. 

" Then I advised them to wait sincerely upon the 
Lord in such Meetings (for they had no instrumental 
Teachers) and assured them that I had a firm Confil- 
dence in the Lord that he would visit them by his Holy 
Spirit in them, in his own Time, if they were faithful, 
held on and did not faint or look back. 

" And accordingly, some time after we departed the 
Island, they did meet, and the Lord did visit them and 
gathered many unto himseK, and they became a large 
and living Meeting in Him and several living and able 
Ministers were raised by the Lord in that Family, and 
of others, to the Honour of His own Arm, who is 
worthy forever." 

The fact that each of the three ministers — Thomas 
Chalkley, John Richardson and Thomas Story — in turn 
felt satisfied that his visit brought about the awakening 
which led to the large meetings of Friends on Nan- 
tucket, is most natural. 

The account of each in his journal is the best record 
we have, and indicates that in 1698, in 1701 and in 
1704 there was a considerable revival among many of 
those people, and the encouragement given to each mis- 
sionary was sufiicient excuse for the satisfaction ex- 
pressed.* 

*As early as 1664, " Jane Stoakes," an Englishwoman, visited 
the island, and in a written record, accompanied by dates and 
believed to be authentic, Jane Stoakes is referred to as the first 
visiting Friend; again, in 1688, a Friend, who is not named, vis- 
ited the settlement. 



Rise of Friends on, Nantucket. 131 

From such detail we conclude that the tendencies 
were strong towards Quakerism before the beginning 
of the eighteenth century, during which the principles 
of the Societ}^ of Friends were embraced by a large ma- 
jority of the people. 

Friends' Eecords of ISTantucket Monthly Meeting 
state that it was established in ITOS. 

The following is a copy of the " minute of petition " 
of the ]S[antucket Friends, sent to Rhode Island Yearly 
Meeting: 

" To Friends at y^ yearly Meeting to be held on 
Rhoad Island 

" Pursuant to y® good order of Truth as we have 
been informed by our friends Ebenezer Rocomb & 
Patrick Henderson & by whose advice also We do think 
it Would be for y^ good of friends here to have a 
monthly meeting of bufiness among ourselves uppon 
this island of Xantucket hoping it Will tend to our 
Comfort & Preservation, We do Propose to friends 
at y^ yearly meeting to be held on Rhoad Island y® 
11-12 & 13 Days of y® 4 month nex yt if they see 
good it should be so they may make an Entry thereof, 
but if they see cause otherwise then Leave without 
making any Entry: & if friends alow us to have one, 
then to advise us what Quarterly meeting may be 
thought most convenient for us to be Joyned unto yt 
there we may apply ourselves in any necessary matter 
as we may have ocafion. and farther we do think it 
would be of Good service & acceptable to us if friends 
think Good yt we should have a General meeting for 
worship once in y® year & if fuiting With friends con- 
venience to be in y® same month which y^ yearly meet- 



132 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

ing on Rhoad Island is held on, as soon as possible 
after y*^ said yearly meeting is ended. So with the 
salutation of our Love to you We conclude your 
friends. 

" Signed With advice of friends here by 

Mary Starbuck J^^athl Starbuck Jr 

Ann Trott Stephen Hussey 

Dorcas Starbuck Jethro Starbuck 

Priscilla Coleman Barnabas Starbuck 

John Coleman Jr 
" mntucket y^ 26 day of y*^ 3 ^ 1708." 

For many years the Society prospered, and its large 
meeting-houses were well filled. 

The experience of Nantucket has been a repetition of 
the history of the Society of Friends in many localities ; 
other religious denominations have attracted the 
younger people, and the older members, one by one, 
have passed from works to rewards, until at present no 
member of the Society of Friends resides on !N^an- 
tucket. 

In 1894 one meeting-house on the island was sold, 
and is at present the property of the Flistorical Society. 
Since that date the last meeting-house belonging to 
Friends has been sold to another denomination. 




A Nantucket Street. 



CHAPTEK XVI. 

AN IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT. 

A Pennsylvania N writing of ISTantucket one hun- 
dred years after the settlement, having visited the 
island for the purpose of studying its manners and cus- 
toms, says, — 

"... Here we have none but those which adminis- 
ter to the useful, to the necessary and to the indispen- 
sable comforts of life . . . The inhabitants abhor the 
very idea of expending in useless waste and vain luxu- 
ries the fruits of prosperous labor. ... At home the 
tender minds of the children must be early struck with 
the gravity, the serious, though cheerful deportment of 
their parents; they are inured to a principle of subor- 
dination arising neither from sudden passions nor incon- 
sistent pleasure. They are corrected with tenderness, 
nursed with most affectionate care, clad with that decent 
plainness from which they observe their parents never 
to depart; in short by the force of example, more than 
by precept, they learn to follow the steps of their 
parents and to despise ostentatiousness as being sinful. 
They acquire a taste for that neatness for which their 
fathers are so conspicuous; they learn to be prudent 
and saving; the very tone of voice in which they are 
addressed establishes them in that softness of diction 
which ever after becomes habitual. If they are left 
with fortunes, they know how to save them, and how to 
enjoy them with moderation and decency; if they have 



134 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

none they know how to venture; how to work and toil 
as their parents have done before them. ... As the 
sea excursions are often very long, the wives are neces- 
sarily obliged to transact business, to settle accounts, 
and, in short, to rule and provide for their families. 
These circumstances being oft repeated give women the 
ability, as well as the taste for that kind of superintend- 
ency to which, by their prudence and good management, 
they seem to be in general very equal. This ripens their 
judgment and justly entitles them to a rank superior to 
other wives. To this dexterity in managing their hus- 
band's business whilst he is absent, the jSTantucket 
women unite a great deal of industry. They spin or 
cause to be spun, abundance of wool and flax, and would 
be forever disgraced and looked upon as idlers, if all the 
family were not clad in good, neat and sufficient home- 
spun cloth. First days are the only seasons when it is 
lawful for both sexes to exhibit garments of English 
manufacture, and even these are of the most moderate 
price and of the gravest colors." 

This being the judgment of an outsider surely was 
impartial, and all of l^antucket descent will be willing 
to accept the views of a -svriter so flattering, especially 
as we have no means of judging of those times except- 
ing by tradition. 

JSTearly one hundred and fifty added years have 
wrought many changes, and still we find a justifiable 
pride in all who claim descent from Mary Starbuck and 
her contemporaries. 

If " the evil that men do lives after them," the lives 
of the early settlers must have been exceptionally ex- 



FT 








' M 








^1 





A Nantucket Gardefi. 



An Impartial Judgment. 135 

emplary; there seems to be little recorded discreditable 
to any of them. 

JSTecessity made them what they were ; there could be 
no idle hands among them; they must work or they 
must starve; and, at a very early date, the peace of a 
Quaker influence spread over them proportionate to 
that of Colonial Philadelphia, and to-day may be heard 
even among those who belong to the so-called " world's 
people " " the Thee and the Thou of the Quaker." 



DETAIL OF DESCENT 
FROM PROPRIETORS AND SETTLERS. 



KEY TO EEFERENCES. 

In the following genealogical pages the small letters in the mar- 
gin refer to the authorities in the code given below. 

The volume and page are printed with the date in the marginal 
note. 

Names in italics indicate that the ancestor so designated de- 
scends from one or more of the early settlers or their associates 
and that the detail of her ascent to said settler will in its turn 
be given. 

CODE. 

a^Nantucket Town Records. 

b — Nantucket Probate Court Records. 

c — Nantucket Friends' Marriages. 

e S — Sandwich Friends' Marriages. 

c L — Lynn Friends' Marriages. 

c N B — New Bedford Friends' Marriages. 

c N C — North Carolina Friends' Marriages. 
d — Nantucket Friends' List of Members (births and deaths). 

d S — Sandwich Friends' Births and Deaths. 

d L — Lynn Friends' Births and Deaths. 

d N B — New Bedford' Friends' Births and Deaths. 

d N C — North Carolina Friends' Births and Deaths, 
e — Published Genealogies. 

e C — Coffin Family, by Allen Coffin. 

e CI — Coleman Family, by Silas B. Coleman. 

eNC — Clarke Family (Descendants of Nathaniel Clarke). 

e H — Hazard Family. 

e K — Kimball Family. 

e S — Swain Family. 

e Sr — Sears Family. 

e W — Wing Family, edition of 1881. 
f — Savage's New England Families. 
g — New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 
' h — Macy Genealogy. 
i — One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families (Austin's). / 
j — Rhode Island Genealogical Dictionary (Austin's). 
k — Wyman's Charlestown Estates. 
1 — Otis's Barnstable Families, 
m — Barker Family, by Barker Newhall. 
m — (without figures) Barker Chart, by Barker Newhall. 
n— MSS. of Wm. C. Folger, of Nantucket. 
o — Arnold's Vital Statistics of Rhode Island, 
p — Boyd's History of Watertown (Mass.). 
q — American Ancestry. 



r — History of Hingham, Mass. 

8 — Dow's History of Hampton, N. H. 

t — Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury. 

u— Family MSS. 

uM— Mitchell Family MSS., by Rebecca G. Mtchell. 

u St— Stanton Family MSS. 

u Cr— Cornell Family MSS. 
T- — Hobart Memorial. 
X — Shattuck Memorial. 
y — Nantucket Inquirer, 1862, Gardner Family, by W. C. 

Folger. 
z — Freeman's Cape Cod. 
-f- After. 
— Before. 
± About. 



Note.— One whohas no knowledge of Kantucket -will find what will appear a 
needless repetition in the family lines given, but the Mary Coffins, Mary Starbucks, 
etc., were almost legion iu different generations, therefore, for absolute clearness, 
" daughter of," etc., will be repeated in each instance. 



I 



i. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



THE MITCHELL FAMILY 



/'¥ 



There is a theory entertained by this family that its 
early history was located in Scotland, but Richard 
Mitchell, the first of the name of whom we have any 
record, lived at Brixton or Bricktown, Isle of Wight, 
and married Mary Wood. 

The absence of records of this family on the beautiful 
island, which was the home of our ancestor, indicates 
that he immigrated there; his son Richard, born 1686, 
came to Rhode Island in 1708, and in the same year 
married Elizabeth Tripp; he died in 1722. 

He was educated in the doctrines of the Church of 
England, and spent some time in the Royal ISTavy, but 
after coming to America became convinced of the prin- 
ciples of the Society of Friends. 

One of his descendants says of him : " The firmness 
with which Richard Mitchell adhered to the religious 
faith he early adopted, the honesty and integrity that 
were maintained in all his transactions, the tender, 
thoughtful care for the welfare of his wife and young 
family, are striking traits which are inherited by many 
of his descendants. 

"... He was blessed with a good understanding 
and sound judgment, and was capable of assisting and 
advising in matters of difficulty." 



Vc ii. 260 
) d 153 



b. 7. 4, 1710 ■) uM 

m. 12. 26, 1730-1 >c i. 54 
d. 10. 5, 1787 ) d 153 

b. ± 1686 -) uM 

m. 1708 yuM. 

d. 1722 j o 4 



Peleg Mitchell, Sr., married Lydia Cartwright. 

Peleg Mitchell, Sr., was son of 

Richard ^ Mitchell and Mary StarhucJc. 

Richard ^ Mitchell was son of 

Richard ^ Mitchell and Elizabeth Tripp. 



fb. 1. 10, 1762 
(d 49) 

Ld. 2. 11, 1833 
(dl58) 



f b. 7. 8, 1715 

(d 196) 
Id. 10. 24, 1780 

(d 153) 

rb. ± 1685 
d. Feb. 13, 1740 

I (o) 



142 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



}' 



b. 1671 

m. 10. 6, 1694 

d. 8. 12, 1770 

b. i 1635 
m. 1662 
U. 6. 6, 1719 



b. =k 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



b. ± 165R 

m. Jan.19,1681-2 

d. May 3, 1730 



>ai. 5 
) dl96 

Jai. 11 



}- 



b. 1C28 
d. 1678 



d. Sep. 23, 1710 
Will proved 
Oct. 24, 1710 



J 208 
j 208 ; O 



b. ± 160.5 ) 

m. ± 1630 >g xxiv.150 

d. Oct. 2, 1681 jai. 3 



H208 



b. 1610 
d. 1680 



b. July 8, ns.'i 



Richard ^ Mitchell was son of 

Richard ^ Mitchell and Mary Wood. 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer. 

Jethro Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Elizabeth Tripp was daughter of 
James Tripp and Mercy Lawton. 

James Tripp was son of 

John Tripp and Mary Paine. 



Dorcas Gayer was daughter of 

William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coefin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mercy Lawton was daughter of 

George Lawton and Elizabeth Hazzard. 

Mary Paine was daughter of 

Anthony Paine and Susanna . 



Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Elizabeth Hazard was daughter of 
Thomas Hazard and Martha . 



) ll 94 
2nrl mo. 8, 1769 V 
d. 10. 29, 1822 J d 49 



Lydia Cartwright was daughter of 
James Cartwright and Love Macy. 



rb. 8. 29, 1675 

(ai.2) 
I d. 10. 11, 1747 

(dl96) 

b. Feb. 20, 1745 
Sept. 13, 1717 
(g xxiv. 1.50 ; 
a 1. 11) 



{S: 



{"■ 


1685 
(eEt) 


{-• 


Feb. 12, 1687 
(j208) 


I 


1696 

(u) 


{' 


+ 1682 
(eC) 



rd. 1669 
L (eH) 



rb. June, 1740 
d. Jan. 7, 1808 



Tlie Mitdiell Family. 



143 



b. 1. 11, 1707 ) 

m. Mar.7, 1731-2 Va i. 28 

d. 5. 15, 1791 ) 

}■ 

Va i. 



h. Jan. 26, 1677 Va i. 3 



d. 7. 2, 1705 



b. June 2, 1715 ) h 78, 94 
m. May 30, 1738 Vc i. 90 
d. May 21, 1793 ) h 



b. ± 1687 ^ h 68 

m. June 18, 1718 '-a 
d. Mar. 16, 1759jh68 



b. July 14, 1655 

m. 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 

b. 160S 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



h67 
h67 



j a i. 



b. Feb. 12, 1674-5 ) g xvi. 
m. [ 270 

d. Dec. 24, 1712 J k ii.771 



h. i 1590 ■> k ii. 778 

(1. April 19,1680 jk ii. 771 



b. June 12, 1694 

m. 

d. Mar. 4, 1768 



-1 g XXIV. 
Y 306 
) g xxiv. 



}. 



b. 



(1. Julyl,1747jg xxiv. 306 

b. Aug. 12, 1640] g xxiv. 
m. Nov.orDec. I 151 
3, 1663. ; eK 32 

(1. July 28, 1720 J gxxiv. 
151 

b. ± 1605 ~) g xxiv. 

m. ± 1630 Hb. [150 

d. Oct. 2, 1681 Jib.;ai.3 



b. Oct. 30, 1647 ~) g xxiv. 
m. > 151 

d. Sept. 5, 1711 ) g xxiv. 
151 



b. 1626 
m. 1652 



X 361 
x361; 
ilOl 
jai. 4 



James Cartwright was son of 

Hezediah Cartwright and Abigail Brown. 
Hezediah Cartwright was son of 

Sampson Cartwright and Bethiah Pratt. 
Sampson Cartwright was son of 

Edward Cartwright and Elizabeth Trott. 

Love Macy was daughter of 

Francis Macy and Judith Coffin. 
Francis Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin. 
Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Bethiah Pratt was daughter of 

Joseph Pratt and Dorcas Folger. 
Joseph Pratt was son of 

Phineas Pratt and Mary Priest. 

Judith Coffin was daughter of 

Richard Coffin and Buth Bunker. 
Richard Coffin was son of 

John Coffin, Esq., and Hope Gardner. 
John Coffin, Esq., was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Coffin was daughter of 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 



d. 9. 21, 1797 

I (u) 



(h. Feb. 11, 
J, 1679-80 
( d. 10. 19, 1741 
(k i. 193) 

fd. Aug. 11, 1729 

1 (2d wife) (n) 



rb. Sept. 19, 1719 
d. May 15, 1799 
I (h 94) 



'b. 

d. Sept. 23, 
L 1760 {h 79) 

rb. Feb. 12, 1658 
d. 1712 
I (b68) 



rb. 1612 
d. 1706 
I (b 67) 



rd. + 1681-2 
I (k ii. 771) 



fb. 1669 

' d. Oct. 12, 1750 

L (g xxiv. 306.) 



rb. Aug. 5, 1645 

1 (eK 32) 



(d. -I- 1682 
I (eC) 



rb. 

' d. Feb. 4, 1718 

L (g xxiv. 152) 



rb. 1632 
Id. 1724 



144 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



kli. 230 



b. =t 1580 
m. 1611 
d. 1621 



Ikil. 



b. Feb. 25, 1675 



)gxxiv. 

y 151 

JbAi.89 



Will probated 
13, Sep., 1721 

b. 1648 -) 

m. April 11,1669 ,^h 67 

d. June 6, 1712 j 



d. May 26, 1658 >f i. 299 



b. 

m. 1659 
d. 1663 



\n. 



b. 1608 
m.9.6, 1639 
d.4. 19, 1682 



|il69 
JO. 



Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Dorcas Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Mary Priest was daughter of 

Degory Priest and Sarah (Allerton) (Vincent) 
Priest. 



Ruth Bunker was daughter of 

Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin. 
Jonathan Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 
William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 
George Bunker was son of 

William Bunker (Bon Coeur). 

Hope Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starhuck. 



Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 



fd. 1704 
I. (g xvi 



27a 



fd. Mar. 30, 1768 
I (g xxiv. 151) 



rb. Dec. 4, 1648 . 
d. 1729 

I (b 67) 



fd. Oct. 31,166 
I (ai. 1) 



rb. 1612 
d. 1706 

I (b 67) 



The Mitchell Family. 



145 



Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
■ Shattuck and Damaris - 



(x3Sl) 



Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Stakbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Descendants of Peleg Mitchell, Sr., and Lydia Cart- 
wright, descend also from: 
Richard Mitchell, 
Edward Starbuck (three times), 
Tristram Coffin (four times), 
James Coffin (twice), 
John Coffin, Esq., 
Lieutenant John Coffin, 
Thomas Gardiner (twice), 
Richard Gardner (twice), 
Joseph Austin, 
John Tripp, 
James Tripp, 
William Gayer, 
George Lawton, 
Thomas Hazard, 
Anthony Paine, 
Thomas Macy (twice), 
Phineas Pratt, 

Degory Priest (Mayflower signer, 29th), 
Edward Cartwright, 
William Bunker (French Huguenot), 
Peter Folger. 



Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, daughter of Judge Bray- 
ton and Love (Mitchell) Brayton, and grand-daughter 
of Peleg Mitchell, Sr., and Lydia (Cartwright) Mitchell, 
was a lineal descendant (on the maternal side) of all 
the above-named settlers of ISTantucket, and on the 
paternal side of Christopher Hussey. 



146 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

She was the first president of the Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union of Ohio, and later, recording secre- 
tary of the National and World's Temperance Unions, 
and gave her time and life (dying while in the service 
of the Union) to the cause which she had espoused. 
While she was an enthusiast, she was in no sense a 
fanatic, being governed always by strong common 
sense, and a dignity which was nature's gift. She trav- 
eled extensively, and often addressed large audiences,- 
in addition to her close and conscientious work with the 
pen in the discharge of her duties as secretary. 

Professor Maria Mitchell (see chapter on Peter 
Polger) was another granddaughter of Peleg Mitchell, 
Sr., and Lydia (Cartwright) Mitchell. 

From the " History of the Hazard Family " we learn 
that Thomas Hazard, progenitor of the Hazard family 
in America, was born in 1610, and died in 1680. He 

married first, Martha , who died in 1669; second, 

Martha, widow of Thomas Sheriff, She died in 1691. 

On March 25th, 1638, he was admitted freeman in 
Boston ; two years later freeman in Portsmouth, Rhode 
Island. 

In 1639, he with eight others, signed a compact for 
the settlement of Newport, Rhode Island. September 
2d, 1639, he was admitted freeman of Ne^\"port. In 
1640, March 12th, he was appointed a member of the 
General Court of Elections. 

His will, proved 1680, leaves Martha, whom he calls 
" his beloved yoke-fellow," as his sole executor. 

George Lawton, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was 
admitted inhabitant of Aquidneck in 1638; he married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hazard. 

In 1648 he was a member of the Court of Trials. 

In 1665, '72, '75, '76, ^79, '80, Deputy. 

His daughter, Mercy Lawton, married, January 
19th, 1682, James Tripp, son of John Tripp and Su- 
sanna Paine. Mercy (Lawton) Tripp died in 1685. 



The Mitchell Family. 147 

John Tripp, born 1610, of Providence and Ports- 
mouth, died 1678. He was one of the Court of Com- 
missioners for 1654, '55, '61, '62, '63. (Rhode Island 
Colonial Records, Vol. L, pages 281-309, etc.) 

Assistant, 1648, '70, '71, '73, '74, '75. (Ibid., Vol. 
I., page 210; Vol. II., pages 302-373, etc.) 

Deputy to General Assembly, 1664, '66, '67, '68, 
'69, '70, '72. (Ibid., Vol. II., pages 22-150.) 



James Tripp, son of John Tripp, was commissioned 
Ensign on December 25th, 1689, Dartmouth, Mass. 
(Plymouth Colonial Records, Vol. VI., page 223.) 

William Gayer, Esq., spelled also Geare, came from 
Devonshire, England, was a citizen of Nantucket, and 
died there on the 23d of September, 1710. He was 
Judge of Court of Common Pleas, appointed October 
16th, 1696; September 7th, 1699; June 29th, 1702, 
and June 6th, 1706. He was also one of five Judges 
appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, in 1704, 
in the trial of the Indian " Sabo " for the crime of mur- 
der. (Mass. Civil List, page 112; New England His. 
and Gen. Reg., Vol. XXXI., page 237.) 

William Gayer, of the firm of Gayer & Bunker, was 
especially able as a surveyor and " laid out plots." 

Edward Cartwright, the first of the Nantucket family 
of that name, came from the Isles of Shoals, near Ports- 
mouth, New Hampshire. He settled at Pocomo on 
Nantucket. 

He had two wives. By his will, dated 1705, he gives 
Pocomo, then owned by him, to his sons Nicholas, Samp- 
son, Edward, and wife Elizabeth. Sampson sold out 
in 1712 all but the house. 

Edward Cartwright, Sr., died September 2d, 1705. 
Elizabeth Cartwright, his widow, born Trott, sister of 
John Trott, died August 11th, 1729. (Town Records.) 



148 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Degory Priest was the 29tli signer of the Mayflower 
compact. 

Prince says: " The year begins with the death of 
Degory Priest." " Priest is set down in the Leyden 
records as from London, and had been many years a 
member of the Leyden Company." " It is on record 
that he married, ISTovember, 1611, Sarah (Allerton) 
Vincent, widow of John Vincent; November, 1615, he 
was admitted a citizen of Leyden, and in April, 1619, 
he deposes that he is forty years of age and knows one 
Nicholas Claverly." (Leyden MS. Records.) "His 
widow married Cuthbert Cuthbertson, a Dutchman, 
who also was one of the Leyden Company, and Winslow 
calls him Godbert Godbertson, probably the name he 
owned in early life, and it met with changes which 
seemed to come to the Pilgrims, and those in marriage 
connected with them." (Mayflower Signers, Mail and 
Express, Part II., page 24.) 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



THE KUSSELL FAMILY 



4^ 



m"ia V"" lciL248 ' John Eussell, Jr., married Hepzibah Coleman. 

d.V. 3, 1825 id 190 



1. 12. 3,1731-2 O.S. [c i. 00 
. 10. 16, 1789 ) d 188 



b. 1680 

m. Nov. 6, 1705 ^a iii. 12 

d. 1763 J b 68 



5 !-a 111. 



b. Aug., 1668 ^ 
m. Nov.20,1690yai. 7; 
(1. Jan. 29, 1753 ) g xxiv. 
151 



0. ± 1635 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 



h. i 1604 

m. 

d.l2. 4, 1690 



1 g i. 11 
yeC56 
) a i. 11 



b. July 14, 1655 ) 

m. rii 67 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 ) 



b. 1608 

m. 9. 6, 1639 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



>il69; a 



b. Aug. 12, 16401 g xxiv. 
m. Nov. or I 151 ; 
Dec. 3, 1663 f eK 32 
d. July 28, 1720 J lb. 



b. i 1605 
m. i 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



") g xxiv. 
Ub. [150 
jai. 3 



b. ± 1626 

m. 1652 

d. Jan. 23, 1688 



) X 361 ; 

y i 101 

jai. 4 



John Russell, Jr., was son of 

John Russell, Sr., and Ruth Starbuck. 
John Russell, Sr., was son of 

Daniel Russell and Deborah Macy. 

Ruth Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Stakbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Macy was daughter of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 

John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tkisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tkisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 



(h. 10. 15, 1759 
\ (A 44) 

(d. 6. 14,1834 
(d 190) 



fb. 12. 24,1714-5 

(d 17) 
Id. 10. 5,1772 

(d 188) 

(h. Mar. 3, 1679 
{ d. Aug. 16, 1742 
( (h67) 



- d. Aug. 1, 1750 
i. (g xxiv. 151) 



( b. Feb. 20, 1645 
J. (g xxiv. 160) 
(d.9. 13, 1717 
(ai. 11) 



fb. Feb. 12,1658 
d. 1712 

I (li 68) 

f b. 1612 
d. 1706 

I (h 67) 



[•b. Aug. 5, 1645 
' (eK32; gxxiv. 
I 151) 



I d. + 1682 



r d. + 1682 
L (eC) 



fb. 1632 
Id. 1724 



150 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



► fU. 230 



b. 9. 14, 1708 ) d 42 
m. 9. 8, 1733 O S Vc i. 62 
d. 6. 23, 1781 J d 42 



b. 8. 2, 1677 -) i 220 ; 
m. V eCl 1 

d. 1. 19, 1762 ) d 42 



eC17 
b i. 36 



Estate settled 
Mar. 2, 1715-16 

b. 1602 
d. 1685 



b. 5. 13, 1682 ) a 3 
m. 12. 7, 1711-2 Sai. 19 
d. 2., 10, 1767 Jil44 



b. 1632 

m. 10. 8, 1676 

d. 4. 2, 1718 



s ii. 761 



b. 1599 I Kng. Parish 

y Kecords ; 
d. 3. 6, 1686 j s 



Vg x-v 

J 270 



bapt. Sep. 1638 Vf i. 270 



Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gaediker and Margaret Frier. 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 



Hepzibah Coleman was daughter of 

Barnabas Coleman and Rachel Hussey. 
Barnabas Coleman was son of 

John Coleman, Jr., and Priscilla Starhuch. 
John Coleman, Jr., was son of 

John Coleman, Sr., and Joanna Folger. 
John Coleman, St., was son of 

Thomas Coleman and Susanna . 

Rachel Hussej was daughter of 
Sylvanus Hussey and Abial Brown. 

Sylvanus Hussey was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Priscilla Starbuck was daughter of 
Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Joanna Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Abial Brown was daughter of 

John Brown and Rachel Gardner. 
John Brown was son of 

John Brown and Hannah Hohart. 



C (x361;ilCi) 



(b. 

■I d. 11. 9, 179B 
( (d 5; i 14 



fd. 3. 14,1762 
I (d 42) 



rd. .5. 18, 1719 
1 (ai. 12) 



fd.Nov. 16, 16^0 
1 (eCl 6) 



rb. ± 16.56 
L (sii. 761) 



d. 10., 1649 
(s ii. 589) 



fd. 1704 

1 (g xvi. 270 1 



' b. 8. 3, 1662 
L (f ii. 228) 



( b. May 15, I6;w i 
i d. Sept. 11, 161)1 
I. (r ii. 335) 



The Russell Family. 



151 



1, May 26, 1658 



}n. 



f b. 1561 
i d. 1660 



Is il. 589 



b. ■) 

,m. Feb. 20, 1654 >f ii. 228; 
d. May, 1706* ) i 101 



b. 1604 

m. 1627 

d. Jan. 20, 1679 

b. ± 1570 

m. ± 1597 

d. Mar. 8, 1646 J v 100 



lv22 



Martha Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane (Godfrey). 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Rachel Gardner was daughter of 

Captain John Gardner and Priscilla Grafton. 
John Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Hannah Hobart was daughter of 

Rev. Peter Hobart, who was son of 
Edmund Hobart. 



Descendants of John Russell and Hepzibah (Cole- 
man) Russell descend also from: 
Edward Starbuck (twice), 
Thomas Macy, 
James Coffin, 

Tristram Coffin (three times), 
Richard Gardner, 
John Gardner, 
Thomas Gardiner (twice), 
Thomas Coleman, 
Christopher Hussey, 
Peter Folger, 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
Rev. Peter Hobart, 
Edmund Hobart. 



< d. 10. 31, 1662 
1 (a i. 1) 



rd. — 1717 

t (b A i. 39) 



* Will dated Dec. 2, 1705. First probated Oct. 2, 1706, b A i. 
10, 12, 13. Final probate 24 April, 1717, widoAV Priscilla, being 
deceased (b A i. 39). 



CHAPTER XIX. 



THE SWAIN FAMILY 



b. 11. 10, 1745 
m. 1. 29, 1767 
d. 7. 26, 1814 



)d 197 
^cii. 146 
Jd200 



b. -| 

m. 11.31, 1736-7 OS Vc i. 



b. ) 

m. 1. 6, 1711-2 ^a i. 9 

d. 2. 28, 1744 OS ) n 

b. Sept. 1, 1664 1 g xvi. 
d. 11.29,17390 si 



d. 1717 > i. 227 

Will signed , 
Feb. 9, 1714-5 J bAi.32 

b. 1600 ~» eS 5 

d. Apr. 14, 1682 j a i. 3 



b. 7, 22, 1677 
m. 10. 15, 1706 
d. 8., 1756 



b. 1636 

m. 1659 Kiii. 328 

d. May 1, 1727 



|il88 

jb Ai. 

27 2 

■)il87 
Vfiii. 328 
J fill. 328 

}' 



d. July 25, 1650 kiii. 328 



b. Sept. 16, 16611 gvi. 57 
m. May 12, 1687 !s988 
Will proved ( 
Jan. 19, 1731 J s 988 



b. i 1626 
m. Nov. 1 
d. Jan. 29 



)gvi 
, 1647 > 
1C77 J g vi 



vi. 60 



55;s96 



f-g XVI. 

\ 270 



Francis Swain, Jr., married Lydia Barker. 

Francis SAvain, Jr., was son of 

Francis Swain, Sr., and Mary Paddack. 
Francis Swain, Sr., was son of 

John Swain, 3d, and Mary Swett. 
John Swain, 3d, was son of 

John Swain, Jr., and Experience Folger. 
John Swain, Jr., was son of 

John Swain and Mary Wier. 
John Swain was son of 

RiCHAKD Swain and . 

Mary Paddack was daughter of 

Nathaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker. 

iSTathaniel Paddack was son of 

Zechariah Paddack and Deborah Sears. 

Zechariah Paddack was son of 
Robert Paddack and Mary . 

Mary Swett was daughter of 

MosES Swett and Mary Hussey. 

Moses Swett was son of 

Benjamin Swett and Hester Weare.* 

Experience Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 



* Hester (Weare) Swett, daughter of Nathaniel Weare, and 
widow of Benjamin Swett, married Stephen Greenleaf, as second 
wife. Hester Weare's brother, Nathaniel, married Elizabeth 
Swain, daughter of Richard Swain. 



rb. 9. 27, 1749 

(a 1. 77) 

Ld. 9. 8, 1833 

(d 200) 



r d. 4. 26, 1775 
1 (d 170) 



rb. Feb. 2, 1689 

d. ± 1764 
(- (g Vi. 57) 



( d. 6. 4, 1739 
I (gxvi.) 



rd. — 1714 
I, (i227) 



' b. 9. 3, 1686 
d. 1. 18, 1767 

(il88) 



(b. Sept., 1639 
■ (eSr) 
( d. Aug. 17, 1732 
(1 187) 

fd. -fl650 
1 (i 187) 



fb. 11. 8, 1665 
1 (s ii. 761) 



rb. ± 1629 

' d. Jan. 16, 1718 

' (3 988) 



fd. 1704 

I (gxvi. 270) 



The Swain Family. 



153 



d. Mar. 1680 



lai. i 



b. 1648 
m. Apr. 
d. June 6 



b. 



11, 1669 It 
3,1712 ) 



d. May 26, 1658 



► fi. 299 



b. 1590 
m. 1632 
d. Aug. 26, 1676 . 



baptized Feb. 29, 

1636 lsii.760 

m. 9. 2, 1659 r8ii.761 

d. 1711 



b. 1599 

m, 

d. 3. 6, 1686 



j s ii. 



759, 



d. Mar. 1, 1680 



jai. ; 



d. 4. 19, 1682 j-a 



b. i 1561 
d. 1660 



>a ii. 



589 



Mary Wier was daughter of 
Nathaniel Wiee or Weabe. 

Ann Bunker was daughter of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 
William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 
George Bunker was son of 

William Bunkee. 

Deborah Sears was daughter of 

Richaed Seaes and Dorothy Thatcher. 

Mary Hussey was daughter of 

John Hussey and Rebecca Perkins. 

John Hussey was son of 

Cheistophee Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Hester Weare was daughter of 

Nathaniel Weaee and Sarah . 



Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batcheldeb. 



rb. Dec. 4, 1648 
d. 1729 
I (h 67) 



rd. 10.31, 1662 
L (a i. 1) 



Descendants of Francis Swain and Lydia (Barker) 
Swain descend also on the paternal side from: 
Richard Swain, 
John Swain, 
Zechariah Paddack, 
Benjamin Swett, 
Moses Swett, 
Peter Folger, 
Nathaniel Wier, Wyer, or Weare (twice), 



d. March 19, 
1678-9 
(eSr 32) 



rb. 

U. 

rb. 

J. d. 1649 
I (a Ii. 



589) 



rb. 1612 
d. 1706 
I (h 67) 



154 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

William Bunker, 
John Hussejj 
Christopher Hussey, 
Eev. Stephen Batchelder, 
Thomas Macj. 

Benjamin Swett, soldier in King Philip's War, En- 
sign, Lieutenant and Captain (Mass. Col. Records, pages 
183, 254 and 338). 

N". E. His. and Gen. Reg., Vol. VI., page 54, says: 
" Mr. Swett acquired great celebrity for his skill 
and daring in hunting and fighting the Indians, by 
whom he eventually lost his life while in command 
of the Massachusetts forces of the East. Swett won 
for himself a high rank among the heroes of the 
Colonial wars. He was always in that post which most 
required sagacity and courage." 

Moses Swett, son of Benjamin, was a commissioner 
on the boundaries between New Hampshire and Massa- 
chusetts, 1695. (Provincial papers of New Hampshire, 
Vol. II., page 168.) 

Richard Sears came to America in 1630 with the last 
of the Scrooby congregation of Leyden, and landed at 
Plymouth on May 8th. 

The tax rates at Plymouth indicate that he was pos- 
sessed of a large property. He was born in 1590, mar- 
ried Dorothy Thatcher in 1632, was a member of Ply- 
mouth Colonial Court in 1662, and died in 1676. 
Dorothy Sears died in 1680. Their later years were 
spent in Yarmouth, Mass. 

Rev. Barnes Sears, the fifth president of Brown Uni- 
versity, Providence, R. I., who succeeded Dr. Wayland 
in 1855, and held the office until 1867, was a descendant 
of Richard Sears. 



Note. — For descent of Lydia Barker see Barker Family, page 
155. 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE BARKEE FAMILY. 



b. Feb. 23, 1723 ■)ai. 77 
m. Feb. 16, 1744 Va i. 49 



b. ) 

m. Jan. 21, 1718 U 
d. 2, 1739 J 



m. Dec. 28, 1665 
d. ± 1710 



ImH 



Robert Barker married 
First, Jedidah Chase; 

Second, Sarah Gardner,* widow of Hezekiah 
Gardner, and daughter of Abishai Folger 
and Dinah (Starbuck). 

Children of the first wife were : 
Judith Barker, 
Margaret Barker, 
Lydia Barker, 
Mary Barker, 
Robert Barker, 
James Barker, 
Francis Barker. 

Children of the second wife were : 
Jedidah Barker, 
Mary Barker, 
Abraham Barker, 
Sarah Barker, 
Isaac Barker, 
Jacob Barker, 

Robert Barker was son of 

Samuel Barker and Bethiah Folger. 
Samuel Barker was son of 

Isaac Barker and Judith Prence. 



Sarah Gardner, widow Hezekiah, had one son, Gideon Gard- 



fb. 2. 15, 1723 

1 (a i. 77) 



rb. Nov. 24, 1692 
d. Jan. 29, 1774 
L (m 18) 



156 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. " prob." 1616) 
(1. 1681 J 



b. 1659 ) 

d. 8.23,1732, OS ) 



d. 1690 



b. rt 1601 ) 

m. Apr. 1, 1635 V 
d. Mar.29,1673jf iii. 477 



b. Jan. 15,1642-3-] t49 

d. 4. 3, 1718 !.ai.l2 

Will proved I 
June 11, 1718 JbAl.43 



b. 

m. 

d. rt 1677 



}.. 



d. 1671 



L 



b. 16<?8 •) S 909 

m. Oct. 2, 1707 



) s909 
^aiii. 12 



b. April 1, 16.50 -) 

m. Oct. 5, 1675 Vs909 

d. May 9, 1727 J 



b. 

ra. 
d. 1652 



I. 



IfiL: 



Isaac Barker was son of 

RoBEKT Barker and Lucy Williams. 

Bethiah Folger was daughter of 
John Folger and Mary Barnard. 

John Folger Avas son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Judith Prence was daughter of 
Thomas Prence and Mary Collier. 

Mary Barnard was daughter of 

Nathaniel Barnard and Mary Barnard. 
l^athaniel Barnard was son of 

Thomas Barnard and Eleanor . 



Mary Collier was daughter of 
William Collier. 



Mary Barnard was daughter of 

Robert Barnard and Joanna Harvey. 



Jedidah Chase, first wife of Robert Barker, was 
daughter of 

James Chase and Rachel Brown. 
James Chase was son of 

Lieutenant Isaac Chase and Mary Tilton. 
Isaac Chase was son of 

Thomas Chase and Elizabeth Philbrick. 



Rachel Brown was daughter of 
John Brown and Rachel Gardner. 



(d. bet. Mar. 7, 
■{ 1681-2,and Feb. 
(18,1689 (inl2) 



'b. ±1667 
d. 8. 6, 1737 
(gxvi.) 



f d. 1704 

1 ( 



g xvi. 270) 



d. 1. 17, 1718 
: (a i. 12) 



d. Nov. 27, 1694 

. (t49) 



rd. Mar. 31,1705 
L (a 1.38) 



d. Feb. 11, 1677 
I (P 404) 



The Barker Family. 



157 



m. 1658 



d. ± 1667 



b. 

m. 

d. May, 1706 



}„. 



Ifii. 229 
ifli. 230 



b. ± 1578 

d. Aug. 30, 1658 



I: 



John Brown was son of 

John Brown and Hannah Hobart. 

Elizabeth Philbrick was daughter of 
Thomas Philbrick and Ann Knapp. 

Rachel Gardner was daughter of 

Captain John Gardner and Priscilla Grafton. 
John Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Hannah Hobart was daughter of 
Rev. Peter Hobart and 



Rev. Peter Hobart was son of 

Edmund Hobart and Margaret Dewey. 

Ann Knapp was daughter of 
William Knapp. 



Descendants from Robert Barker * and Jedidah 
(Chase) Barker descend also from: 
Robert Barker/ 
Peter Folger, 
Thomas Prence, 
Thomas Barnard, 
Robert Barnard, 
William Collier, 
Isaac Chase, 
Thomas Chase, 
John Brown, 
John Gardner, 
Thomas Gardiner, 
Thomas Philbrick, 
Rev. Peter Hobart, 
Edmund Hobart, 
William Knapp. 



158 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



h. 10. 27, 1739 



}" 



. Sept. 27, 1700) § 
1.2. 7m., 1735 > 
. 1. 22, 1788 ) k 



b. Sept. 27, 1700 -) g xvi. 
I g xvl. 



b.l678 , . „ 

m. Dec. 29, 1699 >a i. 3 
d. 7. 2, 1747 OS J g xvl. 



JVai. 



b. 1648 
m. 1671 
d. 1716 



b. Feb. 20, 1676 
m. 9. 21, 1693 



Will proved 
Aug. 10, 1726 



I g XVI. 



>gxvi. 
I 270 



g xxiv. 

152 
g xxiv. 

307 
g xxiv. 

152 
b Ai. 

123 



b. May 11, 1652 ) 

d. May 18, 1734 Vg xxiv. 

J 150 
b. ± 1605 ) 

m. i 1630 >g XXIV. 

d. Oct. 2, 1681 J a i. [160 



d. May 26, 1658 



}„.: 



Sarah Gardner, second wife of Robert Barker 
and widow of Hezekiah Gardner, was 
daughter of 

Abishai Folger and Dinah StarhucJc. 
Abishai Folger was son of 

Nathan Folger and Sarah Church. 
Nathan Folger was son of 

Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner. 
Eleazer Folger was son of 

Petee Folger and Mary Morrell. 



Dinah Starbuck, widow of Benjamin Starbuck, 
was daughter of 

Stephen Coffin, Jr., and Experience LooJc. 
Stephen Coffin, Jr., was son of 

Stephen Coffin, Sk., and Mary Bunker. 
Stephen Coffin, Sr., was son of 

Teistram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Sarah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Experience Look was daughter of , . . 

Thomas Look and Elizabeth -i^W^'^"^'''" 



Mary Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 



Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris - 



t. 



b. 5. 23, 1713 

(a 1.7) 
Sept. 1, 1798 
(gxvi.) 



/ A. Dec. 19, 1729 
I (gxvl.) 



rd. 1704 

L (g xvi. 270) 



rb. Nov. 22, 1672 
\ (ai.2) 
Id. 4. 17,1759 
(n) 

rb. 1652 
J (fi. 299) 
(d. 1724 

(g xxiv. 152) 



r b. 1632 
L d. 1724 



•: .^f 



rd. 10. 31, 1662 
I (ai.1) 



The Barker Family. 159 

Descendants of Robert Barker * and Sarah (Gardner) 
Barker descend also from: 
Robert Barker/ 
Peter Folger (twice), 
Thomas Prence, 
William Collier, 
Thomas Barnard, 
Robert Barnard, 
Tristram Coffin, 
Stephen Coffin, 
Thomas Gardiner, 
Richard Gardner, 
Thomas Look, 
William Bunker, 



CHAPTER XXL 



FAMILY OF LUCRETIA MOTT. 



b. 9. 5, 1768 
m. 1. 28, 1790 



Lucretia Mott was born at ISTantucket, January 
3d, 1793, and died at her residence on Old York Road, 
near Philadelphia, JSTovember 11th, 1880. 

She seems to have possessed many of the characteris- 
tics of Mary Starbuck. She was truly womanly, but 
firm and fearless in her convictions; living during a 
great crisis, she gave her strength, mentally and physi- 
cally, to the philanthropic work of righting every wrong 
which she believed lay in her path of duty. 

She was much beloved in the Religious Society of 
Friends, of which she was a member, and among whom 
she labored in the ministry for many years. 

Her association with JSTantucket was not abandoned 
because at an early age it ceased to be her residence. 
She visited it frequently, and continued in correspond- 
ence through many years with the earnest men and 
women who, like herself, battled in the cause of free- 
dom for the African race. 

A number of her letters to Kathaniel and Eliza Bar- 
ney, of Nantucket, are published by Mrs. Anna Davis 
Hallowell in the " Life and Letters of James and Lu- 
cretia Mott." Throughout these letters much interest 
is shown in every cause she loved, much energy dis- 
played in her desire for action, and much charity ex- 
pressed for those whose early influences had dwarfed 
or rendered extinct the spirit of philanthropy. 



id43 
ccii. 338 



b. Apr. 3, 1705 1 g xxiv. 

1 306 
m. 4. 29, 17fi2 fcli. 89 
d. 11. 3, 1780 J d 43 



Thomas Coffin married Anna Folger. 

Thomas Coffin was son of 

Benjamin Coffin and Deborah Macy. 



N 



rb. 3. 2.1, 1771 
I (d94) 



r b. Apr. 17, 1726 

(h 19) 
d. 11. 22, 1803 
L (d43) 



Family of Lucretia Mott. 



161 



b. 1671 
m. Oct. 17, 
d. Oct. 29, 



, 1692 y 
1721 ) 



g XXIV. 

151 



b. Aug. 12, 16401 g XXIV. 
m. Dec. or I 151 

Nov., 1720 feK32 
d. July 28, 1720 J 



b. =t 1605 
m. ± 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



^gx 
J a i. 



xxlv. 

[150 



b. ± 1687 ) g XXIV. 

m. 6. 18, 1718 Va. [152 

d Mar. 16, 1759 J g xxiv. 

152; h 78 



b. July 14, 1655 

m. 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



ih67 
(h67 

lai. 4 



b. 

Will proved , . . „^ 
Oct. 24, 1710 J b A 1. 26 



b. ± 1604 

m. 

d. 12. 4, 1690 

b. Oct. 30, 1647 



d. Sept. 5, 1711 ) S XXIV. 
151 



Vai. 



b. 1626 

m. 1652 

d. Jan. 23, 1668 



^ X 3 

j a i. 



x361 

4 



^f ii. 230 



b. 

m. 1659 

d. 1663 



}- 



Benjamin Coffin was son of 

Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris Gayer. 

Nathaniel Coffin was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tkisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin. 
Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Damaris Gayer was daughter of 

William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 

Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Coffin was daughter of 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



b. 7. 24, 1728 ~) n 

m. 10. 7, 1749 O S Vc i. 170 

d. 1815 j d 94 



b. Sept. 27, 1700^ g xvL 
m. Nov. 6, 1727 Vib. 
d. 1. 22, 1778 J d 91 



Anna Eolger was daughter of 

William Folger and Ruth Coffin. 
William Folger was son of 

Abishai Folger and first wife, Sarah Mayhew. 



rb. Oct. 24, 1673 

d. Sept. 6, 1764 

L (g xxiv. 305) 

rb. Aug. 5, 1645 
(eK 32) . 

u. 



rb. 

i d. Sept. 23, 1760 

(. (h 79 ; g xxlv. 

152) 

rb. Feb. 12, 1658 
^ d. 1712 

rb.l612 
J. d. 1706 
I Ch 67) 



rd. Feb. 4, 1718 
L (g xxiv. 152) 



rb. ± 1733 

(n) 
Ld. 3. 11, 1814 

(d94) 

rd. July 11, 1734 
i (gxvi.) 



162 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



m. Dec. 29, 1699 >g xvl. 
d. 7. 2, 1747 O. S. ) 



b. 1648 
m. 1677 



b. June 12, 1694^ g xxiv. 
m. > 306 

d. Mar. 4, 1768 J lb. 



d. July 1, 1747 >g xxiv. 
J 306 

b. Aug. 12, 16401 

m. Nov. or 1 eK 32 

Dec. 1663 f 

d. July 28, 1728 J g xxiv. 



b. ± 1605 
m. r±r 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



m. Dee. 8, 1699 
d. 1710 



J ai 



XXIV. 

150 
3 



}? 



qx. 106 
~ ill. 185 



b. 1591 
d. 1681 



Ifui 



Will provedlbAi. 
Sept. 13, 1721 J 



m. 4. 11, 1669 
d. 6. 26, 1712 



Abishai Folger was son of 

Nathan Folger and Sarah Church. 

Nathan Folger was son of 

Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner. 

Eleazer Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Ruth Coffin was daughter of 

Kichard Coffin and Ruth Bunker. 
Richard Coffin was son of 

John Coffin, Esq., and Hope Gardner. 
John Coffin, Esq., was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Sarah Mayhew was daughter of 

Paine Mayhew and Mary Rankin. 
Paine Mayhew was son of 

Matthew Mayhew and Mary Skiffe. 
Matthew Mayhew was son of 

Thomas Mayhew, Jr., and Jane Paine. 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., was son of 

Thomas Mayhew, Sr. 

Sarah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Ruth Bunker was daughter of 

Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin. 
Jonathan Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 
William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 
George Bunker was son of 

William Bunker. 



f d. 12. 19, 1729 

I (n) 

fd. 1704 

1 (g xvl. 270) 



fb. 1669 

d. Oct. 12, 1750 
L (g xxiv. 306) 



rb. Aug. 5, 1645 
L (eK 32) 



;b. 

t d. + 1682 



rb. Oct. 13, 1677 
d. May 8, 1761 
I (qx. 106) 



rb. 1621 
Ld. 1657 



(b. 

J. d. Mar. 30, 1769 

I. (g xxiv. 151.) 



fh. Dec. 4, 1648 
i &. 1729 
I (b 67) 



Family of Lucretia Mott. 1G3 

Hope Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuclc. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 
Jajmes Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 



Descendants from Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger 
descend also from: 

Tristram Coffin (four times), 
James Coffin (three times), 
John Coffin, Esq., 
Peter Folger, 

Richard Gardner (three times), 
Thomas Gardiner (three times), 
Thomas Mayhew, Sr., 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., 
Edward Starbuck (twice), 
Thomas Macy (twice), 
Lieutenant John Coffin, 
William Gayer, 
William Bunker. 

The children of Thomas and Anna (Folger) Coffin 
were: 

Sally Coffin, unmarried. 

Lucretia Coffin, married James Mott. 

Eliza Coffin, married Benjamin H. Yarnall, of 

Philadelphia. 
Mary Coffin, married Solomon Temple. 
Martha Coffin, married Peter Pelham, of Ken- 
tucky, a captain in the United States Army. 
Thomas M. Coffin, unmarried (the only son). 



164 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Descendants of Thomas Gardiner may be found in 
another branch of the Yarnall family. 
Edward Yarnall married Caroline R. Cope. 

Caroline R. Cope was daughter of 

Thomas Pirn Cope and Mary Drinker. 
Mary Drinker was daughter of 

John Drinker and Rachel Reynear. 
John Drinker was son of 

Henry Drinker and Mary Gottier. 
Henry Drinker was son of 

Joseph Drinker and Mary Janney. 
Joseph Drinker was son of 

John Drinker, of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Ruth 
Balch. 
Ruth Balch was daughter of 

Benjamin Balch, the first child born in the Massa- 
chusetts Bay Colony. 

Benjamin Balch married Sarah Gardiner, daughter 
of Thomas Gardiner. Benjamin Balch, of Salem, was 
son of John and Anice Balch, a Somersetshire family, 
which dated from the Conquest. Benjamin Balch was 
living in 1706. 

Family of Jampjs Mott and Lucretia (Coffin) Mott. 
Children. 
Anna Mott, married Edward Hopper. 
Thomas Mott, unmarried. 
Maria Mott, married Edward Morris Davis. 
Thomas Mott, married Marianna Pelham. 
Elizabeth Mott, married Thomas S. Cavender. 
Martha Mott, married George W. Lord. 

Grandchildren. 
Children of Edward Hopper and Anna (Mott) 

Hopper. 
James Hopper, 
Lucretia Hopper, 



Family of Lucretia Mott. 165 



Maxia Hopper, 
George Hopper, 
Isaac Hopper. 



^^^^^^ .^^ — , -^ 

{1st 



Children of Edward Morris Davis and Maria 

(Mott) Davis. 
Anna Davis, married Richard Price Hallowell. 

Martha Mellor. 
Naomi Lawton. 
Charles Davis. 
Charles Davis. 
William Morris Davis, married Ellen Bliss Warner. 

Children of Thomas Mott and Mauianna (Pelham) 

Mott. 
Isabel Mott, married Joseph Parrish. 
Emily Mott, married George R. Shaw. 
Maria Mott. 

Children or Thomas S. Cavender and Elizabeth 
(Mott) Cavender. 
Fanny Cavender, married Thomas Parrish. 
Henry Cavender. 
Charles Cavender. 
Mary Cavender, married William J. Wilcox. 

Children of George W. Lord and Martha (Mott) 

Lord. 
Ellen Lord, married Bernard De Schweinitz. 
Bessie Lord. 

Mary Mott Lord, married Julian Rumsey Linkham. 
Anna Lord, married Herbert M. Lloyd. 
Lucretia Lord, married Albert Strauss. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



FAMILIES OF THOMAS EARLE AND JOHN MILTON EAKLE. 



b. 10. 9, 1766 
m. 10. 1, 1789 
d. 1802 



dl33 
332 



b. 2. 6, 1753 ■) d 133 
m. 11. 6, 1777 >-c li. 249 
d. 10. 10, 1822 



[-CU 

)a 

)d 13 
>-cli. 



b. 7. 12, 1738 
m. 2. 3, 1757 
d. 9. 23, 1804 



b. May 13, 1682 
m. 9. 8, 1723 
d. 2. 10, 1767 

b. 1632 

m. 10. 8, 1676 

d. 



Ic ii. 2! 
J n 

■)ai. 3 
^c i. 25 
) d 132 

Uii.76 



b. 1599 ") Eng. 

m. >■ Parish 

d. 3. 6, 1686 ) Becords; i 



b. Aug., 1668 -I 

m. Nov. 20,1690 ', g xxiY, 

f 151 
d. Jan. 29, 1753 J ib.;dl96 



b. i 1634 
in. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 

b. ± 1604 

m. 

d. 12. 4, 1690 



d. May 26, 1658 



^ a 1. 11 
UC56 
jai. 11 

lai. 4 
Ifi. 29! 



Uriel Hussey married Phebe Folger. 
Tristram Hussey married Sarah Folger. 
Uriel Hussey was son of George Hussey. 

Tristram Hussey was son of 
Batchelder or Bachiler Hussey. 

George Hussey and Batchelder Hussey 
were brothers and sons of 

Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuck. 
Sylvanus Hussey was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 
Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

]S[athaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

N'athaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

l*^athaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Martha Bunker was daughter of 
George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 



Note. — George Hussey's wife was Deborah Paddack, 
a descendant of Zechariah Paddack, who married Deborah 
Sears, of Yarmouth, a daughter of Richard Sears. 



rb. U. 29, 1728-9 
J. (d 132) 
( m. 10. 29, 1748 
(c 1. 157) 

rb. 9. 8, 1700 OS 
i (d 196) 
(.d. 12. 31, 1764 
(d. 132) 

( b. ± 1656 

- d. 

(. (s ii. 761) 



r d. 10, 1649 
L (s ii. 589) 



d. Aug. 1, 1750 
L (gxxiv. 151; 
d 196) 

fb. Feb. 20, 1645 

d. Sept. 13, 1717 

L (g xxiv. 150 ; 

a i. 11) 



rd. 10.31, 1662 
L (ai. 1) 



{'■ 



b. 1. 30, 1739 
12. 12, 1815 
(c iL 25) 



Thomas Earle and John Milton Earle. 



167 



b. 1561 
d. 1660 



>-s ii. ■ 



b. Aug. 12, 1640"! g xxiv. 
m. Nov. or ( 151 

Dec. 3, 1663 f ib. ; eK 
d. July 28, 1720 J ib. [32 



b. ± 1605 



m. ± 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



g xxiv. 

150 



ai. 3 



b. 9. 21, 17 
b. 3. 24, 17 



1. 7. 13, 1820 I 



c iii. 7 



m. 6. 6, 1821 Vc iv. 74 



>c n 



Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
E.EV. Stephen Batchelder. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tkistkam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



were sisters of Anna Folger 



Phebe Folger 
Sarah Folger 
(the mother of Lucretia Mott) and their descent 
from early settlers of Nantucket, being identical 
-with, that of Anna Folger, will be found on a pre- 
vious page, under " Family of Lucretia Mott." 

Uriel Hussey's daughter Mary married 

Thomas Earle. 
Tristram Hussey's daughter Sarah married 

John Milton Earle. 



f b. Aug. 5, 1645 
(eK 32) 



rb. 

i a. + 1682 

I CeC) 



rb. 3. 25,1771 
L (d94) 



Descendants from them descend also from : 
Edward Starbuck, 
Christopher Hussey, 
Stephen Hussey, 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
Peter Folger, 
James Coffin (three times), 
Tristram Coffin (four times), 
Thomas Mayhew, Sr., 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., 
Richard Gardner (twice), 
Thomas Gardiner (twice), 
Thomas Macy, 
William Bunker (twice). 



168 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Thomas and Mary Earle have intermar- 
ried with the families of Van Leer, of Chester County; 
Earle, of Massachusetts; Gibbons, of Pennsylvania; 
and White, of Londonderry, Ireland. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



SWIFT FAMILY 



m. 9. 5, 1821 



b. 2. 11, 1769 
m. 9. 30, 1790 
d. 1848 



b. 1730 

m. 2. 7, 1754 

d. 3. 17, 1813 



^dll4 
Vc n. 342 

O S Ic i. 223 
)dll4 



b. July 1, 1680 
d. June 17, 1760 



I ai. 3 
I g xxiv. 
152 



b. Oct. 23, 1653 T 
m. May 17, 1674 1 y 
Will si gned 1 

20 Jan. 1727-8; f 

proved July 

17, 1728 (b A i. J 

135) 
b. ± 1626 1 X 361 

m. — 1652 iilOl; 

f X 361 
d. Jan. 23, 1688 J a i. 4 



b. 10. 12, 1706 -) a i. 8 
m.lO. 2, 1726 OS yci. 36 
d. 1777 ) d 196 



b. 1671 ~) uM 

m. 10, 1694 ^a i. 7 

d. 8. 12, 1770 ) d 196 



b. ± 1635 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 

b. ± 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



1 a 1. 11 

UC56 
jai. 11 ; 



g xxiv. 150 



b. May 11, 1652 



d. May 



/ 11, 1652 I 
,' 18, 1734 j 



g XXIV. 

150 

b. ± 1605 -) g xxiv. 150 
m. zt 1630 yib. 
d.0ct.2,168lj ib. ;ai. 3 



Dr. Paul Swift married Dorcas Gardner, 
daughter of 
Zenas Gardner and Susanna Hussey. 

Zenas Gardner was son of 

Paul Gardner and Rachel StarhucJc. 
Paul Gardner was son of 

Solomon Gardner and Anna Coffin. 
Solomon Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Mary Austin. 
Richard Gardner was son of 

Richard Gaudneb and Sarah Shatiuck. 
Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gakdiner and Margaret Frier. 

Rachel Starbuck was daughter of 

Thomas Starbuck and Rachel Allen. 
Thomas Starbuck was son of 

Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer. 
Jethro Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edwaed Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Anna Coffin was daughter of 

Stephen Coffin and Mary Bunher. 

Stephen Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 



fb. 4. 2, 1798 

(d39) 
Id. 1877 

'b. 4. 24, 1771 
(d 133) 

[a. 2. 7, 1842 
(d39) 



fb. 4. 20, 1735 
(ai. 54) 

Id. 8. 29, 1775 
(d 114) 



d. 22 Apr. 1740 
L (g xxiv. 152) 



rd. Junel, 1721 
L OS (y) 



f b. 1632 
1 d. 1724 



fb. 12. 31, 1709 

(a i. 7) 
[d. 5. 31, 1789 

(d 196) 

rb. 8. 29, 1675 

(a i. 2) 
Id. 10. 11, 1747 

(d 196) 

rb. Feb. 20, 1643 
d. 9. 13, 1717 
t (g xxiv. 150; 
ai. 11) 



rb. i 1652 

(fi. 299) 
la. 1724 

(g xxiv. 152) 

fd + 1682 
I (eC) 



170 



d.1741 



Will signed 21-) 
Sept. 1710 ; >-b A i. 26 
proved Oct. ) 
24, 1710 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris 



d. May 26, 



1, 1658 if 



b. 


±1604 


d. 


12. 4, 1690 


b. 


Dec. 2, 1642 


d. 


1690 


b. 


1602 


d. 


1685 



jai. 4 



b. 5. 12, 1738 
m. 2. 3, 1757 
d. 1805 



)d 132 

Vc ii. 2i 



Rachel Allen was daughter of 

Edward Allen and Ann Coleman. 

Dorcas Gayer was daughter of 

William Gayer and Dorcas Starhuck. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Ann Coleman was daughter of 

Joseph Coleman and Ann BunTcer. 

Joseph Coleman was son of 

Thomas Coleman and Susanna . 



Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Ann Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunkek. 



Susanna Hussey was daughter of 

George Hussey and Deborah Paddack. 



fb. Nov. 10,167 

(eCl 7) 
Id. 1739 



pb. 
d. 1696 

L (n) 



fd. Oct. 31, 1662 

I (ai. 1) 



rb. ±1654 

1 (fi. 299) 

fd. Nov. 10, 1650 
1 (eCl 6) 



rb. 1. 30, 17.39 
Id. 



Swift Family. 



171 



b. May 13, 1682 
m. 9. 8, 1723 
d. 2. 10, 1767 



b. 1630 

m. 10. 8, 1676 

d. 4. 2, 1718 



~) ai. 3 
^ci. 25 
jdl32 

)s ii. 76; 



b. 1599 "» Eng. Parish 
m y Records; s 

d.3. 6, 1686) 



d. Lost at sea 1743 >d 179 



b. 9. 22, 1677 
d. 1756 



lb Ai. 

j 27,28 

I f iii. 321 



d. July 25, 1650 Vf iii. 328 



b. Aug 9, 1668 ) a i. 1 
m. Nov. 20, 1690 V 
d. Jan. 29, 1753 ) g xxiv. 
151 



b. i 1634-5 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 



■) a 1. 11 

Uc 

J a i. 11 



d. May 26, 1658 Vfi. 299 



b. 1561 
d. 1660 



>-8 ii. 



b. 23 June 1683 ) 1 420 
m. Dec. 25, 1703 V 
d. 1743 ) 



b. 

m. 2. 24, 1675 

d. 1715 



}' 



bapt.28Jan.1621-) 
m. 1643 Y 

d. Feb. 5, 1676 jfii.281 



George Hussey was son of 

Sylvanus Hussey and Hepzibah Starhuck. 
Sylvanus Hussey was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 
Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christophee Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Deborah Paddack was daughter of 

Daniel Paddack and Susanna Gorham. 
Daniel Paddack was son of 

Nathaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker. 
ISTathaniel Paddack was son of 

Zechariah Paddack and Deborah Sears. 
Zechariah Paddack was son of 

Robert Paddack and Mary . 

Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Martha Bunker was daughter of 
George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Susanna Gorham was daughter of 

Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth Gardner. 

Stephen Gorham was son of 
John Gorham and Mary Otis. 

John Gorham was son of 
John Gorham and Desire Howland. 



rb. Nov. 8, 1700 

(a i. 7) 
{a. 12. 31, 1764 

(d 132) 

rb. ± 1656 
\ (fi. 299) 
Id. 9. 21, 1743 
(s ii. 761) 



fd. 10, 1649 



(s ii. 589) 



fd. 7. 13, 1777 
1 (d 179) 



rb. 9. 3, 1686 
' d. 1. 18, 1767 

I (i 188) 



rb. 1639 
L (eSr) 



fd. + 1650 
I (i 187) 



fd. Aug. 1, 1750 
1 (g xxiv. 151) 



rb. Feb. 20, 1645 

d. 9. 13, 1717 
t (g xxiv. 150 ; 
ai. 11) 



fd. Oct. 31, 1662 
I (ai. 1) 



rb. 3. 14, 1654 

(i 183) 
Ld. 4. 1, 1732 

fb. ± 1623 

d. 1683 
L (i 106) 



172 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 1648 ■) 

m. April 11,1669 ^h 67 

d. June 6, 1712 J 



d. May 26, 1658 ^fi. 299 



b. 1590 ■) 

m. 1632 

B'd Aug. 26, 1676 J 



b. Aug. 12, 16401 g xxiv. 
m. Nov. or I 151 
Dec. 3,1663 Mb.; 

eK 32 
d. July 28, 1720 J ib. 



b. May 19, 1664 
d. 1723 



b. 1621 

m. 1652 

d. 1. 16, 1684 



b. ± 1593 
m. ± 1622 
d. Feb. 23, 1672 



[h67 
J a i. ■ 



Ann Bunker was daughter of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 

William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 



Deborah Sears was daughter of 

EiCHAED Seaks and Dorothy Thatcher. 



Dinah CofBn was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Elizabeth Gardner was daughter of 
James Gardner and Mary Starbuch. 

James Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Mary Otis was daughter of 
John Otis and Mary Jacob. 

Desire Howland was daughter of 

John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 



(h. Dec. 4, 1648 
-I d. 1729 
( (b 67) 



r d. Oct. 31, 1662 
I (ai. 1) 



C Buried Mar. 

■{ 19, 1678-9 
(. (eSr32) 



fb. Aug. 5, 1645 
(. (eK32) 



rb. Mar. 30, 1663 
L (f iv. 57) 



r d. + 1683 
L (i 183) 



fb. ±1607 

Id. Dec. 21, 1687 



(h. 1612 
- d. 1706 
( ()i07) 



Sioift Family. 173 

^NTathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Staebuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris — 



Elizabeth Tillej was daughter of 
John Tilley and . 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tkistram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Descendants of Dr. Paul Swift and Dorcas (Gard- 
ner) Swift descend also from: 
Thomas Gardner (twice), 
Richard Gardner (twice), 
Tristram Coffin (five times), 
James Coffin, 

Edward Starbuck (four times) 
Christopher Hussey, 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
Joseph Austin, 
Thomas Coleman, 
Thomas Macy, 
Robert Paddack, 
Zechariah Paddack, 
William Bunker (four times), 
John Gorham, 
John Howland, 
John Tilley, 
Richard Sears, 
John Otis. 



Paul Swift was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, 
1794. He was for some time a physician at Nantucket, 
where he is still remembered and respected. 



174 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

In 1841 he moved to Philadelphia, where he prac- 
ticed medicine until 1853, when he was appointed a 
teacher at Haverford School (soon after made a col- 
lege); he remained there until 1865, when he resigned 
on account of ill health. He died in Philadelphia in 
1866. 

Daughters of Dr. Paul Swift and Dorcas (Gardner) 
Swift were: 

Mary, married, 1846, Mr. Edwin Lamson, of 
Boston. 

Katharine, married, first. Dr. Marcus A. Moore, 
of Boston; second, Mr, Robert Wharton. 

Susan, married Mr. Albert H. Franciscus, of 
Philadelphia. 

Elizabeth, married Mr. John E. Phillips, of Balti- 
more. 

As an explanation of the theory entertained by 
many descendants that Elizabeth Tilley was daughter 
of John Tilley and Bridget Van der Velde, we quote 
the following from the exceedingly interesting " Reg- 
ister," recently published by " order of The General 
Congress " of The Society of Mayflower Descendants. 

" John Tilley, the sixteenth signer of the Compact, 
came with his wife, whose name is unknown, and 
* Elizabeth, their daughter.' He was one of the ' 10 of 
their principall men ' who, with the boat's crew, made 
up the third and final party of exploration sent out 
from the Mayflower while at Provincetown Harbor. It 
is probable that he was a brother of Edward Tilley. 
Both he and his wife * dyed a little after they came 
ashore.' Dr. Henry M. Dexter in a note to his edition 
of Mourts Relation 1865, quotes from the Leyden 
MS Records, '13-23 February 1615 John Telley, silk 
worker of Leyden married Bridget Van der Velde.' 
She could not have been the mother of Elizabeth Til- 
ley who was born in 1607 and who married John How- 



Swift Family. 175 

land, and the explicitness of Bradford's record of this 
daughter would indicate that the silk worker ' John 
Telley ' of Leyden was not identical with the May- 
flower Pilgrim. 

" Dr. Dexter wrote in 1888 that he was convinced 
that the Leyden record referred to another person. 
Until 1855 it was supposed through family tradition, 
that John Howland's wife was a daughter of Governor 
Carver, which gives some foundation for the belief that 
a relationship existed, and that Elizabeth Tilley may 
have been a granddaughter of the first Governor." 



CHAPTER XXIY. 

FAMILY OF WILLIAM EOTCH. 

Joseph Rotch was born in Salisbury, England, May 
6tli, 1704, and went to Nantucket, subsequently to New 
Bedford, where he died, November 24th, 1784. 

He was interested in whale fishery so successfully 
carried on by his son, William Rotch. 

When the Revolutionary War broke out and the 
whaling business was practically ruined, William Rotch 
went to England, hoping to pursue the business there, 
but, meeting with little encouragement, finally went to 
Dunkirk, Erance, where special privileges from the 
Erench government were granted him. 

He carried on the business there until 1794, when he 
returned to Nantucket, and after a year's residence on 
the island, went to New Bedford and resided there un- 
til his death in 1828. His great-grandson, now living 
in New Bedford, says: "He was a consistent Friend 
and had the courage of his convictions. I have heard 
my great-aunt, Mary Rotch, tell the following story: 

" He was at Dunkirk at the time of the Napoleonic 
Wars; one day there came news of the great victory of 
Austerlitz. 

" Municipal orders were issued commanding every 
one to illuminate in honor of the event. My great- 
grandfather was true to his principles and refused to 
obey the order, though every house in the street was a 
blaze of light. 

" The good mayor of the city was very friendly with 
my grandfather and called to expostulate and if possible 
persuade him — fearing danger from the mob in those 
excited times, but Mr. Rotch refused. 

" * Well/ said the mayor, finally, ' the street belongs 



Family of William Botch. 177 

to the city, and I will do what I can,' so he sent and pro- 
cured two large lanterns and had them placed directly 
in front of the house and detailed some gendarmes 
to walk up and down in front and explain to the people 
that those who lived there were not enemies, but good 
friendly people, who did not believe in war. 

" His daughter, Elizabeth Rotch, was a remarkable 
woman, living to the advanced age of ninety-nine, and 
when over ninety had never used the back of a chair, 
but sat erect without support." 

William Eotch is thus described by this grandson, 
who saw him when he himself was only four years of 
age : " He was a tall, venerable man with white hair 
and beard, and came into the room leaning on the back 
of a large arm chair on castors, attended by his black 
servant." 

The appended extracts from an account of William 
Eotch, recently published in " The American Friend," 
and written by Augustine Jones, Superintendent of 
Friends School, at Providence, Rhode Island, form a 
fitting supplement to the account given above : 

" William Rotch, a distinguished member of the So- 
ciety of Friends, was born in 1734, in the island of 
]^antucket, Mass. His father, Joseph Rotch, his 
brother Francis, both Friends, were, like himself, 
largely interested in the whale fishery and shipping, 
early in ISTantucket and later in ISTew Bedford. This 
family did much to make ISTantucket for a time the 
greatest center of this fishery in the world. 



" William Rotch says: ' From the year 1775 to the 
end of the war we were in continual embarrassments. 
Our vessels were captured by the English, and our 
small vessels and boats, sent to the continent for pro- 
visions, denied and sent back empty under pretence 
that we supplied the British, which was without the 
least foundation. Prohibitory laws were often made 
in consequence of these reports, unfounded as they 



178 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

were. By this inhuman conduct we were sometimes in 
danger of being starved.' 

" He has given to us in his own language an inter- 
esting incident of his experience. . . .He had a lot 
of muskets taken for debt, with bayonets on them. He 
readily sold the muskets to whalers, who used them on 
their voyages to kill wild fowl. But he always reserved 
the bayonets, for their only use was to kill men. 

" The bayonets were neglected and forgotten, until 
an application was made for them from the continent 
for use in war. 

" He says : ' The time had now come to support our 
testimony against war or forever abandon it. As this 
very instrument was a severe test, I would not hesitate, 
and therefore promptly denied the applicant. My 
reasons for not furnishing the bayonets were de- 
manded, to which I readily answered: " As this in- 
strument is purposely made and used for the destruc- 
tion of mankind, and I cannot put into one man's hand 
to destroy another that which I cannot use myself in 
the same way, I refuse to comply with thy demand.' " 
The person left me much dissatisfied. Others came 
and received the same denial. It made a great noise 
in the country, and my life was threatened. I would 
gladly have beaten them into pruning hooks. As it was, 
I took an early opportunity of throwing them into the 
sea.' 

" The Committee of the General Court soon took 
him to Watertown for investigation. He says: ^I 
gave a full account of my proceedings and closed it by 
saying: " I sank them in the bottom of the sea, and I 
did it from principle. I have ever been glad that I 
had done it. If I have done wrong I am to be pitied." 
The chairman of the committee, one Major Hawley 
(a worthy character), then addressed the committee, 
and said: " I believe Mr. Botch has given us a candid 
account of the affair, and every man has a right to act 
consistently with his religious principles. But I am 
sorry we cannot have the bayonets, for we want them 



Family of William Botch. 179 

very much." The major was desirous of knowing more 
of our Friend's principles, on which I informed him as 
far as he inquired. 

" ' In the year 1779, seven British armed vessels and 
transports, with troops from Newport, came to us. . . . 
They plundered us of much property — some from me.' 
Soon after, the town appointed a committee, consisting 
of William Rotch and two others, to represent its case 
to the commander of the army and navy. This commit- 
tee went at once to Ne-wport, where Captain Dawson 
commanded the navy and General Prescott the army. 
They succeeded, through great peril and extraordinary 
energy, in landing, against the protest of Captain Daw- 
son. William Rotch says : ' I got on shore in the after- 
noon and found that I must wait on General Prescott. 
Knowing his brittle temper, and being in the afternoon, 
I almost dreaded to appear in his presence. However, 
let my treatment be what it would, I desired the meet- 
ing over. 

" ' I was introduced by one of his aids. He received 
me very cordially, gave me his hand and said, " Mr. 
Rotch, will you have some dinner ? I can give you good 
bread, though the rebels say we have none." I thanked 
him, saying I had dined. " Well," said he, " will you 
have a glass of mne ? " ' He did not object to the wine 
— it was then in common use — but objected to the cere- 
monies. He said he meant no disrespect. ' General 
Prescott answered: " Oh, no; if a Quaker will be a 
Quaker, it is all I want of him." After some conversa- 
tion, I mentioned that I did not wish to intrude further 
on his time, and rose to retire. " Oh, no," says he, 
" you must take some coffee." I accepted his kindness 
and gladly retired.' 

" The committee could effect nothing, however, with- 
out going to New York, where they were well received 
and accomplished very much. He says: ' We applied 
to Sir Henry Clinton, through one of his aids. Major 
Andre, that fine young man who lost his life as a spy.' 



180 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



" William Rotch was the owner of the famous ship 
Bedford, of Nantucket, which had the honor of first 
displaying the American flag in British waters. There 
is a certain rich and racy relish to the following narra- 
tion of an English historian of the period, who seemed 
to chronicle with some disdain: 

" ' The ship " Bedford," Captain Mooers, belonging 
to the Massachusetts, arrived in the Downes on the 3d 
of February, 1783, and was reported at the custom 
house on the 6th instant. She was not allowed regular 
entry until some consultation had taken place between 
the commissioners of the customs and the Lords of 
Council, on account of the many acts of Parliament in 
force against the rebels of America. She was loaded 
with four hundred and eighty-seven butts of whale oil, 
is American-built, manned wholly by American sea- 
men, and belongs to the island of IsTantucket, in Massa- 
chusetts. This is the first vessel which has displayed 
the thirteen rebellious stripes of America in any British 
port.' — Barnard's ' History of England,' ' Cyclopcedia 
of United States History,' Vol. I., p. 493." 

" His brother Francis owned the ship Dartmouth, 
from which the tea was thrown into Boston harbor 
Twelfth month 16th, 1Y73. She was the first vessel 
built in New Bedford." 

William Rotch " was prominent, in 1784, in New 
England Yearly Meeting, being on the Executive Com- 
mittee which directed its business, and also on the com- 
mittee to consider the state of the Society and devise 
measures for improvement. This was the first year of 
the Providence Friends School, which began at Ports- 
mouth, R. I. He was a strong patron of it." 



b. 10. 4, 1734 -) d 188 
m. 10. 31, 1754 Vc i. 229 
d. J 



b. May 6, 1704 
m. 12. 21, 1733 
d. Nov. 24, 1784 



oslc 

i4 J 



William Rotch married Elizabeth Barney, 

of Nantucket. 
He was son of 

Joseph Rotch and Love Macy. 
Joseph Rotch was son of 

William Rotch and Hannah . 



b. 12. 3, 1735 
. (d8) 



rb. Feb. 9, 1713 

(h 79) 
Id. 11. 14, 1767 

(d 188) 



Family of William Botch. 



181 



b. ± 1687 
d. Mar. 16, 



, 1759 ) h ( 



b. July 14, 1655 
d. Oct. 14, 1691 



b. 1608 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



^il< 
J ai 



1169 

67 

4 



d. Sept. 5, 1711 J ib. 



b. i 1605 
m. ± 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



b. 1626 
m. 1652 
d. Jan. 23, 1668 



I g xxiv. 
y 150; 
\ ai. 8 



-) X 361 ; 
y ai. 4 
jib. 



b. 

m. 1659 
d. 1663 



b. ± 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



Jai. 4 



b. 4. 13, 1699 ■) n 
m. 1.31,172208 Vci. 23 
d. 4. 14, 1783 J d 8 



b. 12. 14, 1671 
m. 12. 6, 1694 
d. 8. 12, 1770 



b. i 1638 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 



iuM 
,i. 7 
196 



1 uT 
J-a i 
jd: 

leC56 
j a i. 11 



d. 7. 23, 1710 ■) g xxxi. 
Will probated [ 298 
Oct. 24, 1710 JbAl. 26 



Love Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy ^ and Deborah Coffin. 

Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 

John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Deborah CofSn was daughter oi 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

RiCHAKD Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuch. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Elizabeth Barney was daughter of 

Benjamin Barney and Lydia Starbuck. 
Lydia Starbuck was daughter of 

Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer. 
Jethro Starbuck was son of 

ISTathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 
ISTathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Dorcas Gayer was daughter of 

William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck. 

Dorcas Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



rb. 

d. Sept. 23, 1760 
L (b 79) 



rb. Feb. 12, 1658 
^ d. 1712 
( (h 68) 



rb. 1612 
d. 1706 
L (li 67) 



d. Feb. 4, 1718 
L (g xxiv. 152) 



rd. + 1682 
L (eC) 



rb. 1632 
Ifl. 1724 



rb.Sept. 15, 1704 

(ai. 8) 
Ld. 4. 2, 1751 

(d8) 

rb. 8. 29, 1675 

(a 1.2) 
Ld. 11. 12, 1747 

(d 196) 

rb. Feb. 20,1645 
(g xxiv. 150) 
Id. 9. 1.3, 1717 
(a i. 11) 



rd. 1696 
L (n) 



183 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Descendants from William and Elizabeth (Barney) 
Rotch descend also from: 
Thomas Macy, . 
Lieutenant John CofBn, 
Tristram Coffin (twice), 
Richard Gardner, 
Thomas Gardiner, 
Edward Starbiick (three times), 
William Gayer. 



CHAPTER XXV. 

WING AND HATHAWAY CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET 

FAMILIES. 



b. 11. 29, 1734-5 -) d 132 
m. 1st, 12. 2,1756 >c ii. 17 
d. 7. 26, 1795 ) 



b. 5. 28, 1737 



b. 5. 13, 1682 
m. 9. 8, 1723 
d. 2. 10, 176' 



2 V** " 
30S ^ci. 
7 jdl 



.s ii. 761 

;5 

132 



b. 1632 1 

m. 10. S, 1676 
d. 1718 > S Ii. 761 

Will proved 
May 13, 1718 J b A i. 41 

b. 1599 ") Eng. Parish 

y Rec. 
d. 3.6. 1686jsii. 760 



b. Aug. 9, 1663 1 a i. 1 
m. Nov. 20, 1690 I g xxiv. 

I 151 
d. 9. 2, 1753 J d 196 

b. i 1634 ■) a i. 11 
m. 1662 ^eC 56 
d. 6. 6, 1719 J a i. 11 



b. ± 1604 

m. 

d. 12. 4, 1690 



^a i. • 



d. May 26, 1658 ^fi. 299 



b. rt 1561 
d. 1660 



U ii. I 



Sylvanus Hussey, Jr., of Lynn, Mass., married, 
first, Alice Gray; second, Lydia Wing. 

Paul Wing, married Abigail Wing, sister of 
Lydia Wing. 

Sylvanus Hussey, Jr., was son of 

Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuck. 
Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 
Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christophek Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 



Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Martha Bunker was daughter of 
George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 



Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 



b. 11. 8, 1700 

(a i. 7) 
d. 12. 31, 1764 

(d 132) 

fb, 11. 1, 1656 
d. Sept. 21, 1744 
I (s ii. 761) 



r d. 10, 1649 
L (s ii. 589) 



-d. 8. 1, 17.50 
(d 196) 



b. Feb. 20, 1645 

(g xxiv. 150) 

d. Sept. 13, 1717 

(a i. 11) 



rd.Oct. 31, 1662 

I (ai. 1) 



f d. 1649 

I (fi. 89) 



184 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. Aug. 12, 1640 -) 
m. Nov. or I eK 

Dec. 3, 1663 fg xsiv. 
d. July 28, 1720 J 151 



b. ± 1605 
m. i 1630 
d. Oct. 2. 1681 



J ai 



XXIV. 

150 
3 



b. 4. 3, 1703 
m. 3. 15, 1731-2 
d. 4. 25, 1730 



b. 1. 28, 1664 
m. 1686 
d. 3, 1740 



~) eW40 
yeW 52 
Jib. 



b. 9. 5, 1641 -) eW 39 

m. Nov. 5, 1642 Vfiv. 59 



b. 1. 17, 1743 
b. 1. 22, 1752 
d. 8. 1, 1807 
m. 1739 

b. 8. 12, 1690 

m. 

d. 2. 12, 1732 



b. 9. 5, 1641 
m. 1664 



leW 



~ieW52 
j eW 59 



h. 1644 



Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance.* 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Paul Wing was son of 

Zaccheus Wing and Content Swift. 
Zaccheus Wing was son of 

Daniel Wing, Jr., and Deborah Dillingham. 
Daniel Wing, Jr., was son of 

Daniel Wing, Sr., and Hannah Swift. 
Daniel Wing was son of 

John Wing and Deborah Baichelder. 

Deborah Batchelder was daughter of 
Eev. Stephen Batchelder. 



Abigail Wing ) ^ x.^ ^ 

T T TTf >• Sisters, were daughters oi 
Lydia Wmg J ' ^ 

Samuel Wing and Hepzibah Hathaway. 
Samuel Wing was son of 

Samuel Wing and Dorothy . 

Samuel Wing was son of 

Daniel Wing, Jr., and Deborah Dillingham. 
Daniel Wing, Jr., was son of 

Daniel W^ing, Sr., and Hannah Swift. 
Daniel Wing, Sr., was son of 

John Wing and Deborah Batchelder. 

Hepzibah Hathaway was daughter of 

Thomas Hathaway and Hepzibah Starhuch. 



* Mary Severance was the daughter of John Severance and 
Abigail Kimball. Abigail Kimball was daughter of Richard 
Kimball and Ursula Scott, who was daughter of Henry and 
Martha Scott, of Rattlesden, Suifolk County, England. 



rb. Aug. 5, 1645 

(eK32; 
I f iv. 52) 



' d. + 1682 
(eC) 



b. Dec. 12, 17 



rd.Dec. 1, 1664 
L (eW 39) 



rb. Mar. 19, 1718 

L (n) 



fd. Dec. 1, 1664 
I (eW) 



rb. Apr. 2, 1680 

\ (eC 68) 
(d. 2. 7, 1740 



Wing and Hathaway Connection. 



185 



D. i 1635 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 

b. i 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



b. ± 1561 
d. 1660 



Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 
}if n l^athaniel Starbuck. St., and Mary Coffin. 

N^atbaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 
|a 1. 4 Edward STAHBucTi and Katharine Reynolds. 



Deborah Batchelder was daughter of 
U ii. 589 Rev. Stephek Batchelder. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Descendants of Sylvanus Hussey, Jr., and Lydia 
Wing descend also on the paternal side from: 
Christopher Hussey, 
Edward Starbuck, 

William Bunker (French Huguenot), 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
James Coffin, 
Tristram Coffin (twice). 

On the maternal side from: 
John Wing, 

Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
Edward Starbuck, 
Tristram Coffin. 



Descendants of Paul Wing and Abigail Wing descend 
also on the paternal side from: 
John Wing, 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 

On the maternal side from: 
John Wing, 

Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
Edward Starbuck, 
Tristram Coffin. 



rb. Feb. 20,1645 
(gxxiv. 150) 
Id. 9. 13, 1717 
(ib.; ai. 11) 



186 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 7. 4, 1805 

m. 10. 8, 1835 

d. 8. 21, 1881 

b. 

m. 11. 10, 1803 

d. 4. 2, 1851 



b. 2. 2, 1803 
d. 5. 13, 1882 

b. 7. 9, 1807 
d. 1879 



m. 1806 

b. 1. 3, 1812 

d. 5. 15, 183fi 
b. 7. 20, 1814 
m. 9. 9, 1840 
d. 10, 21, 1897 



Hepzibah Wing, daughter of Samuel Wing and Hep- 
zibah (Hathaway) and sister of Abigail and Lydia, 
above named, married William Coleman, of Nantucket, 
a direct descendant of Thomas Coleman. There were 
two children, William and Lydia Wing Coleman, 
neither of whom married. 



The story is told of Lydia Wing Coleman, that on 
being invited to a party, she felt such a feminine re- 
luctance to appear in a white dress which had seen ser- 
vice on too many similar occasions, that she embroidered 
figures in red over the entire surface, and was enabled 
to attend the festivity apparently in a new gown. She 
was a woman of considerable ingenuity, a teacher, and 
left behind her a reputation that to the younger genera- 
tions was an example. 



Samuel Wing, son of Paul and Abigail Wing, mar- 
ried, 5th mo. 8, 1799, Anna Rogers, of Marshfield, Ply- 
mouth County, Mass, The children of Samuel and 
Anna (Rogers) Wing were: 

Mary R. Wing, unmarried. 

Abraham R. Wing, married Mary S. Gardner, 
daughter of Prince Gardner and Mary Gor- 
ham. 
Beulah R. Wing, married 12. 10. 1827 (cL), 

Moses Folger Rogers, of Lynn, 
Lindley Moore Wing, married Elizabeth Holway. 
Joseph R. Wing, married Mary Ann Wing, 

daughter of 
Sands Wing and Ann Howland, of Long Plain. 
Hepzibah Wing, unmarried, 

Stephen R. Wing, married Elizabeth Collins 
Shove, daughter of David and Mary Sherman 
Shove. 



-)dS 
^c iii. 34 
J dS 

Vc ii. 420 
Jd 119 



Ids 



Wing and Hathaway Connection. 187 

Children of Abraham R. Wing and Marj S. (Gard- 
ner) Wing: 

Mary Anna Wing, 
Samuel Wing. 



Children of Joseph R. Wing and Mary Ann (Wing) 
Wing: 

Marj H. Wing, unmarried. 

Elizabeth Wing, married Fred. Pond and John S. 
Perry, of jSTew Bedford. 



Child of Lindley Moore Wing and Elizabeth (Hol- 
way) Wing: 

Charles Wing. 

Children of Beulah (Wing) Rogers and Moses Folger 
Rogers : 

Stephen Wing, 
Alice Wing. 

Children of Stephen R. Wing and Elizabeth Collins 
(Shove) Wing: 

Alice Rogers Wing, married Daniel C. Maxfield, 

of Amesbury, Mass. 
Anna Wing, married Elwood Paige, of Lynn, Mass. 
David Shove Wing, died young. 
Asa Shove Wing, died young. 
Asa Shove Wing, married, 4th mo. 30, 1873, 

Sophia Rhoads, daughter of Samuel and Anna 

Rhoads, of Philadelphia. 
Stephen Rogers Wing, married Lydia Remington, 
Joseph Rogers Wing, died young. 

Another connection between the Wing family and 
Namtucket was in the first marriage of Samuel Barker. 



188 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. ISGl 

m. 7. 22, 1685 

d. 



-) f iv. 595 
VeW 55 
jfiv. 595 



Samuel Barker, married, first, Deborah Wing, 
and, in 1718, second, Betliiah Folger* 
Deborah Wing was daughter of 

John Wing and Marj Perry. 
John Wing was son of 

Stephen Wing and Sarah Briggs. 
Stephen Wing was son of 

John Wing and Deborah Batchelder. 
Deborah Batchelder was daughter of 

Eev. Stephen Batchelder. 

The only child of Samuel Barker and first wife, 
Deborah Wing, was Deborah Barker, who married 
Aug. 15, 1738 (a I. 39), Jonathan Burnell, of Boston, 
from whom descended the family of that name in Nan- 
tucket. 

Descendants of Samuel Barker and first wife, De- 
borah Wing, descend also on the maternal side from: 
John Wing, 
Eev. Stephen Batchelder. 

The lines of ascent on the paternal side will be found 
complete in the Barker Family (page 155). 



See Barker Family (page 155) supra. 



(b. 1665 
] (eW) 
(d. Mar. 26, 1689 
(f iv. 595) 

fh. i 1615 

J (1. Mar. 26, 1689 

( (f iv. 595) 



CHAPTEE XXVI. 



KEWHALL CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET FAMILIES. 



b. Sept. 9, 1770 ^ His. of 
Y Lynn, 
d. 1857 J 485 



Thomas ^ Xewhall came from England in 1630. 

Thomas ^ married Elizabeth Potter. 

Joseph ^ married Susanna Farrar. 

Samuel ^ married Keziah Breed. 

Daniel ^ married Hannah Estes. 

Estes ^ Xewhall, married, first, Hepzibah Wing; 
second, Miriam Philbrick. 



Hepzibah Wing was daughter of Paul Wing and Abi- 
gail Wing. (See Wing and Hathaway Family, p. 183). 

Children of Estes Newhall and Hepzibah Wing : 
Paul Wing ISTewhall, who married Hannah John- 
son, and Abby W. Xewhall, who married Mica- 
jah Pratt. 

Children of Estes IsTewhall and Miriam PhilbricJc: 
Three daughters, who died young, and Joseph 
Philbrick Xewhall, who married Elizabeth 
Huntington Barker. 



Children of Paul Wing Newhall and Hannah John- 



son: 



Catharine Johnson ISTewhall, died unmarried. 
Sarah Johnson Xewhall, died unmarried. 
William Estes ISTewhall, married October 8th, 

1857, Philena Marshall Peterson. 
George Xewhall, died unmarried. 
Abbv Newhall. 



m. 1815 
(m) 



190 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. July 15, 1823 -) 
m. — Jan. 4, 1866 v 
d. Sept. 2, 1869 J m 65 


b. Nov. 16. 1786 
xn.Jaii.7th, 18ia 
d. Feb. 24, 1855 


)m41 
^m53 
)m41 


b. Nov. 30th, 1756) m 29 
m. Jan. 27, 1785 -m 40 
d. June 19, 1837 j m 29 


b. Feb., 1716 
m. Nov. 6, 1746 
d. Jan. 27, 1784 , 


) m 19 

>m28 
)m 19 


b. 1666 

m. Oct. 23, 1707 

d. May 7, 1754 


)m 
Vm 19 
Im 14 


b. 

m. Dec. 28, 1665 
d. 1710 
b. i 1616 
m. 

d. 1689 

Will Feb. 18, 
1689 


-m 14 
ml2 



Maria Newhall, died unmarried. 
Elizabeth Newhall, died unmarried. 
Mary N'ewhall. 

Child of Joseph Philbrick jSTewhall and Elizabeth 
Huntington Barker. 
Barker ISTewhall. 

Hannah Johnson, wife of Paul Wing ISTewhall, was 
daughter of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Challis, of 
Amesbury, Mass., a descendant of Philip Challis, who 
was associated mth Thomas Barnard, John Severance 
and Thomas Macy, in the early days of Amesbury. The 
name of Philip Challis appears in many civil and mili- 
tary lists of Amesbury. 

Descendants of Paul Wing Newhall and Hannah 
Johnson descend also from: 
John AVing (twice). 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder (twice), 
Edward Starbuck, 
Tristram CofRn. 



Joseph Philbrick jSTewhall, married, 

Elizabeth Huntington Barker, 
daughter of 
Abraham Barker, who married 

Margaret Buffum. 
Abraham Barker was son of 

Benjamin Barker and Ann Barher. 
Benjamin Barker was son of 

Prince Barker and Abigail Keen. 
Prince Barker was son of 

Isaac Barker and Elizabeth Slocum. 
Isaac Barker was son of 

Isaac Barker and Judith Prence. 
Isaac Barker was son of 

Robert Barker and Lucy Williams. 



( b. Aug. 11, 1826 
Id. Mays, 1900 



(h. Aug. 27, 1789 
- d. Nov. 4, 1839 
( (in 53) 



(h. Aug. 29, 1750 
Id. Aug. 16,1789 



f b. Feb. 6, 1721 
d. Sept. 2, 1790 

L (m 28) 



fb. Feb. 12, 1690 
' d. Aug. 18, 1774 
I (nil9) 



d. + 1710 



rb. 

J d. bet. 1682 and 

] 1689 

I (m 12) 



Newhall Conneciion. 



191 



b. Mar. 25, 1718 ) 
m. Feb. 20, 1745 Vm 
d. Feb. 20, 1775 } 



b. Jan. 26, 1698 
m. Dec. 1, 1715 
d. 1750 



b. 1662 

m. 

d. Nov. 3, 1741 



b. 1623 
m. 1644 
d. 1702 



b. July 26, 1682 
m. + 1713 
d. 1736 

(Duxbury) 
Will 



b. Aug. 17, 1654 ^ 
m. ± 1680 
d. 1733 J 

(Dartmouth) 



b. 1606 1 

m. Apr 1st, 1635 
d. Apr 8 1673 J 



b. Aug. 13, 1653 -) 
m. Nov. 26, 1690 Vm 
d. Jan. 16, 1725 j 



b. 1622 
m. 1643 
d. 1694 



b. Feb. 27, 1650 

m. 

d. Sept. 25, 1729 



Ann Barker was daughter of 

Abraham Barker and Susanna Anthony. 
Abraham Barker was son of 

James Barker and Elizabeth Tucker. 
James Barker was son of 

William Barker and Elizabeth Easton. 
William Barker v/as son of 

James Barker and Barbara Dungan. 
James Barker was son of 

James Barker, who was son of 
James Barker,* of Portsmouth, and formerly of 
Harwich, England. 

Abigail Keen was daughter of 

Benjamin Keen and Deborah Barker. 

Elizabeth Slocum was daughter of 
Peleg Slocum and Mary Holder. 

Judith Prence was daughter of 

Thomas Prence and Mary Collier. 

Elizabeth Tucker was daughter of 
Abraham Tucker and Hannah Mott. 

Elizabeth Easton was daughter of 

Peter Easton and Ann Coggeshall. 
Peter Easton was son of 

XiCHOLAS Easton, of Portsmouth, and Lyming- 
ton, Herts County, England. 

Deborah Barker was daughter of 

Bobert Barker and Alice . 

Robert Barker was son of 

Robert Barker and Lucy Williams. 



* It would appear that James Barker was not a relative of 
Robert, or if a relative, the connection antedates immigration to 
America. 



r b. Dec. 10, 1723 
I d. Aug. 10, 1801 



fb. Aug 24, 1691 
L d. Apr. 2, 1768 



rb. Feb. 18, 1666 
L d. Mar. 24, 1715 



u. 



+ 1628 



- b. Nov. 7, 1686 
.d. — 1730 
(Wid. Prince 
Howland) 



rb. Sept. 16, 1661 
Id. Sept. 20, 1737 



rb. Nov., 1663 
: d. Dec. 11, 1730 



rb. 1626 
Id. 1687 



r d. bet. 1681 and 
I 1689 



192 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 1631 

m. 1660 

d. June 13, 1688 

(Newport,1656) 



d. 1671 -) 

Plymouth, 1633 V 

From liondoa j 



. 17, 1743 1 
t. 24, 17S4 Vr 
y 20, 1829 ) 



b. Oct. 17, 1743 
m. Oct. 
d. May : 



b. Feb. 20, 171.5 •) 
m. Jan. 2, 1738 -c i. 
d. May 10, 1799 ) 



b. ± 1686 ■) uM 

m. 1708 ^uM 

d. July 24, 1722 ) uM 



England 



b.Oct.l7,1689 0S-)n 
m. 12. 1,1710-11 OS Vc i. 6 
d. April 19, 1772 j d 196 



b. 1659 

m 

d. 8. 23, 1732 

b. 1617 
m. 1644 
d. 1690 






b. ± 165G 
m. 1. 9, 1681-2 
d. May 30, 1730 



I-J208; o 



U 246 



Mary Holder was daughter of 

Christopher Holder * and Mary Scott. 

Mary Collier was daughter of 

William Collier and Jane . 



Hannah Mott was daughter of 

Jacob Mott and Joanna Slocum.-f 

Ann Coggeshall was daughter of 
John Coggeshall and Mary . 



Margaret Buffum was daughter of 

David Buffum and Hepzibah Mitchell."!!;. 

Hepzibah Mitchell was daughter of 
James Mitchell and Ann Folger. 

James Mitchell was son of 

Eichard Mitchell and Elizabeth Tripp. 

Richard Mitchell was son of 

Eichard Mitchell and Mary Wood. 

Ann Folger was daughter of 

Jethro Folger and Mary StarbucJc. 

Jethro Folger was son of 

John Folger and Mary Barnard. 

John Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrill. 

Elizabeth Tripp was daughter of 
James Tripp and Mercy Lawton. 

James Tripp was son of 

John Tripp and Mary Paine. 



* Quaker martyr. 

t Joanna Slocum was sister of Peleg Slocum; they were chil- 
dren of Giles yiocum and Joan . 

t Widow of Peter Chase. 



d. Oct. 17, 1065 



/ b. May 16, 1642 
t. rt. Jan. 6, 1727 



'b. 1604 
, d. 1684 



r b. Jan. 4, 1750 
Id. June 21, 1834 



fb. 11. 6, 1726 
i (d93) 

(d. Aug. 6, 1777 

(b. Nov. 21, 
^ 1684 or 5 
(.d. Dec. 13, 1750 



(b. Dec. 31, 1692 
J (d 196) 
(.d. 10. 22,1773 
Cd93) 

(b. 1667 

-^ d. 8. 6, 1737 

I. (n) 



: d. 1704 
- (n) 



fd. ±1685 

I (j 203 ; eH) 



d. Feb. 12. 1687 



Neiuhall Connection. 



193 



b. Aug. 9, 1668 ) a i. 7 

m. Nov. 20, 1690 y 

d. 9. 2, 1752 J d 196 



b. ± 1634 
m. 1662 
d.6. 6, 1719 



b. ± 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



-) a i. 11 
J a i. 11 



)-ai. • 



b. Jan. 15, 1642-3 ) t 49 
m. i 1666 t 53 

d. ) 



d. ± 1677 H49 



-152 



b. 1610 -) 

VeH 
d. 1690 J 

b. Aug. 12, 1640 1 g xxiv. 
151 
ib.; eK 
ib. [32 



m. Nov. or 

Dec. 3, 1663 
d. July 28. 1720 

b. zt 1605 
m. i 1630 

d. Oct. 2, 1681 



Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

aSTathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

ITathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Stakbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Barnard was daughter of 

Nathaniel Barnard and Mary Barnard. 

Nathaniel Barnard was son of 

Thomas Baenaed and Eleanor . 

And his wife, Mary Barnard, was daughter of 
Robert Barnard and Joanna Harvey. 

Mercy Lawton was daughter of 

George Lawton and Elizabeth Hazard. 

Elizabeth Hazard was daughter of 
Thomas Hazard and Martha . 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Children of Joseph Philbrick Newhall and Elizabeth 
Huntington Barker descend on the paternal side from 
Samuel, son of Thomas Philbrick * and Ann (Knapp). 



g XXIV. 

150 
ai. 3 



fd. 8. 1, 1750 



(d 196) 



rb. 1645 

J. A. Sept. 13, r 

I (ai. 11) 



* Thomas Pliilbiick was son of Thomas and Elizabeth Phil- 
brick, who, with six children, came from Lincolnshire, England, 
in 1630, in the Arabella, reaching Salem June 12th. In July they 
went to Watertown; in 1645 to Hampton, now Seabrook. His 
house, built in 1651, has been in the family without interruption 
to the present time. Elisabeth, another child of Thomas Phil- 
brick and Ann (Knapp) married Thomas Chase; they were 
the parents of Lieutenant Isaac Chase, whose granddaughter, 
Jedidah Chase, married Robert Barker. 



rd. Nov. 27, 1694 

L (t 49) 



rd. Mar. 31, 1705 

L (a i. 38) 



rb. Aug. 5, 1645 
L (eK 32) 



J d. -f 1682 
I (eC) 



194 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

On the maternal side from: 

Robert Barker, of Duxbury, Mass. (twice), 

James Barker, of Portsmouth, 

Peleg Slocum, 

Thomas Prence, 

Nicholas Easton, 

Christopher Holder, 

William Collier, 

John Coggeshall, 

Richard Mitchell, 

Peter Folger, 

John Tripp, 

James Tripp, 

Edward Starbuck, 

Thomas Barnard, 

Robert Barnard, 

George Lawton, 

Thomas Hazard, 

James Coffin, 

Tristram Coffin (twice), 

Abraham Tucker, 

Jacob Mott, 

Benjamin Keen. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



FAMILY OF ABRAHAM MACY. 



b. Feb. 4, 1808 



b. Dec, 25, 1779 ) h 150 
m. Dec, 1800 !.h239 



h 



1X1. ±jk:^., ±<j\>y , ' 

d. Aug. 29, 1844 J 



b. Aug. 23, 1807 
m. Oct. 6, 1833 



lh23 



b. Aug. 7, 1739 ) h 109 
m. 12. 3, 1761 ^c li. 73 
d. June 30, 1820 J h 107 



b. 7. 9, 1715 
m. 4. 8, 1738 
d. 7. 4, 1746 



)d li 
jdli 

!2, 1689 ) 
8, 1711 >h( 
5, 1779 j h f 



dl52 

89 
152 



b. Sept. 22, 1689 

m. Sept. 8, 1711 ^li68 

d. Dec. 25, 1779 j h 80 



b. July 14, 1655 

m. 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 

b. 1608 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



[he; 

J a i. 



b. 9. 5, 1711 
m. 11. 7, 1731-2 
d. 9. 3, 1786 



-)d8 
J d. 9 



b. Nov. 7, 1678 ) a i. 3 
m. Nov. 19, 1706 >a iii. 12 
d. 5. 6, 1750 J d. 8 

b. — 1648 'j 

m. Apr. 11, 1669 Vh 67 

d. June 6, 1712 J 



b. 
m. 
d. 5. 26, 1658 



m. Sept. 8, 1720^1426 
d. 7. 14, 1790 ) d i. 218 



Catharine C. Macy, daughter of 
Abraham Macy and Elizabeth Coleman, 
married, October 6th, 1S33, at Ghent, New York, 
Townsend Powell, son of James Powell and Mar- 
tha Townsend 

Abraham Macy was son of 

Abraham Macy and Priscilla Bunker. 
Abraham Macy was son of 

Abraham Macy and Anna Worth. 
Abraham Macy was son of 

Richard Macy and Deborah Pinkham. 
Richard Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Priscilla Bunker was daughter of 

Samuel Bunker and Priscilla Coleman. 
Samuel Bunker was son of 

Jabez Bunker and Hannah Gardner. 
Jabez Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 
William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 
George Bunker was son of 

William Bunker. 

Anna Worth was daughter of 

Joseph Worth and Lydia Gorham. 



(d. Apr. 18,1855 



(h 239) 



'b. June 14, 1745 
d. July 27, 1819 
L (h 150); 

fb. May 23, 1721 
d. Oct. 31, 1795 
[, (h 109) 

fb. Dec 28, 1694 
d. Dec. 13, 1767 
I (h 80) 

fb. Feb. 12, 1658 

d. 1712 
I (b 68) 

f b. 1612 
d. 1706 
(. (h 67) 



fb. 9. 26, 1713 

d. 7. 11, 1797 

L (d I. 42) 



rb. 5. 6, 1686 
(a 1.7) 

[d. 3. 25, 1773 
(d8) 

fb. Dec 4, 1648 

d. 1729 
L (h 67) 



(d. Jane Swain 
J. Oct. 31, 1662 



(ai.l) 



f b. May 14, 17H> 

(fii. 282) 
Id. 3. 1, 17('.3 
(,d i. 218) 



i*T«3t 



196 



Earhj Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. May 19, 1666 ) a i. 1 
m. Sept. 22, 1684 Va 1. 4 



m. Apr. 11, 1665 
d. 1724 J 



d. — 1718 



. Ih67 



b. 1626 
in. 1652 
d. Jan. 23, 1668 



~i x3< 
j a i. 



ig. 2, 1667 ■) 
ov. 1731 y 
11. 19, 1762 ) 



b. Aug. 2, 1667 
m. Nov. 
d. Jan. 



gxvi. 
g xvi. 

f i. 431 
gxvi. 



b. 1644 

m. 

d. 1715 

Estate settled , 

Mar. 2, 1715-6 J b A i. 36 
b. ± 1599 ~) f i. 431 

d. 1682 



jfi. 



431 



id3; 
>g xxiv. 
I 151 



b. Oct. 21, 1667 
m. May, 1695 
d. 1750 



)fii. 



f ii. 282 
282 



b. 1. 16, 1621 1 

Bapt. Jan., 1621 i f ii. 281 

m. 1643 f" 

d. 2. 5, 1676 J f ii. 281 

b. 1575 ■) 

m. ^1 407 

d. ± 1643 J 



Joseph Worth was son of 

John Worth and Miriam Gardner. 
John Worth was son of 

William Worth and Sarah Macy. 

Deborah Pinkham was daughter of 
Richard Pinkham and Mary Coffin. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Prier. 



Priscilla Coleman was daughter of 
John Coleman and Priscilla Starbuck. 

John Coleman was son of 

John Coleman and Joanna Folger. 

John Coleman was son of 

Thomas Coleman and Susanna . 

Hannah Gardner was daughter of 

ISTathaniel Gardner and Abigail Coffin. 

I^athaniel Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Sliattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Lydia Gorham was daughter of 

Shubael Gorham and Puella Hussey. 

Shubael Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Desire Howland. 

John Gorham was son of 
Ralph Gorham. 



f b. July 14, 1665 
d. 1702 



fb. Aug. 1, 1646 
d. 1701 
I (h67) 



rb. 1665 

L (g xxiv. 151) 



rb. 1632 
.d. 1724 



fb. Oct. 25, 1696 

(a i. 7) 
d. Mar. 14, 1762 
L (g xvi. 270; 
d42) 

rd. 5. 18, 1719 

L (g xvi. ; 

a i. 12) 



rd. Nov. 17,1650 
L (fi. 431) 



fb. 

J, d. 3. 15, 1709 
I (ai. 7; 

g xxiv. 151) 



rb. Oct. 10, 1677 
L (a i. 3) 



'b. ± 1623 
(il06) 
Ld. 10. 13, 1683 



Family of AhroJiam Macy. 



197 



b. 1550 
m. 1572 
d. 1576 



b. Aug. 12,1640-] gxxiv. 
m. Nov. or I 151 

Dec. 3, 1663 rib.;eK32 
d. Julj' 28, 1720 J ib. 

b. O- 1605 1 

m. ± 1630 ^g xxiv. 

d. Oct. 2, 1681 ) 150 



b. i 1634 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 

b. i 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



b. 

m. 1644 

d. 1690 



Ealpli Gorham was son of 

James Gorham and Agnes Bennington. 

Miriam Gardner was dangliter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah. Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Trier. 

Sarah Macy was daughter of 
Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Mary Coffin ^ was daughter of 

James Coffin ^ and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 



^eC 56 
j a i. 11 



j al. 



►g XVI. 

I ib. [269 



(1 407) 



b. 1632 ^ 

m. 10. 8, 1676 Vsli. 761 

d. 4. 2, 1718 ) 

b. 1599 ) Eng. Parish 
m. =k 1630 > Kecords 
d. 3. 6, 1686 j s ii. 760 



Priscilla Starbuck was daughter of 
Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 

JSTathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Joanna Folger was daughter of 
Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Abigail Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Puella Hussey was daughter of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Bachelder. 



fb. Aug. 5, 1645 
1 (eK 32) 



rd. + 1682 
L (eC) 



fb. Feb. 20, 1745 
- (g xxiv. 150) 
I d. Sept. 13, 1717 
(a i. 11) 



fd. 1704 

L (g xvi. 270) 



r b. ± 1656 

d. 9. 21, 1744 
t (s ii. 761) 



( d. 1649 

(. (s ii. 589) 



198 



Early Seillers of Nantucket. 



b. ± 1593 
m. ± 1622 
d. Feb. 2; 



13 1 
22 > 
22, 1672 J 



b. 1561 

m. 

d. ± 1660 



b. 1737 ■) 
m. 1762 ^h 86 
d. Jan. 11, 1817 J 

b. 7. 8, 1706 -) d i. 4: 
m. 11.0, 1731 OS ^ci.58 
d. 2. 16, 1785 ) 



d. 1. 19, 1762 V6. 42 

b. Aug. 2, 1667 ■)»!. 1; 
gxvi. 
d. 1715 J. 

Estate settled I 
Mar. 2, 1715-6 Jb Ai. 3 

b. 1602 
d. 16S5 



}n. 



b. April 8, 1725 ") h 69 
m. July, 1744 ^h 86 
d. Juuel7, 1798) h 69 



■)h67 
m. Apr. 25,1707 1-h 69 



b. ± 1675 

m. Apr. 2S 

d. Nov. 28, 1751 j h 67 



b. July 14, 16.55 ■) h f.7 

m. 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 



I h f.7 
j h 67 



Desire Howland was daughter of 

John IIowland and Elizabeth Tilley. 

Mary CofRn ^ was daughter of 

Tkistram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Martha Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunkee. 

Theodate Bachelder w^as daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Bachelder. 

Elizabeth Tilley was daughter of 
John Tilley. 



Elizabeth (Coleman), wife of Abraham Macy, was 
daughter of 

Elihu Coleman and Elizabeth Macy. 
Elihu Coleman w^as son of 

Jethro Coleman and Lydia PaddacJc. 
Jethro Coleman was son of 

John Coleman and Priscilla Starbuck. 
John Coleman was son of 

John Coleman and Joanna Folger. 
John Coleman was son of 

Thomas Coleman and Susanna . 

Elizabeth Macy was daughter of 

Jonathan Macy and Lois Gorham. 
Jonathan Macy was son of 

John Macy and Judith Worth. 
John Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 



rb. il607 

Id. Dec. 21, 1687 



Apr. 18, 1745 

(h85) 



2. 18, 1713 

(i 188) 

1. 21, 1747 

(d i. 44) 

Oct. 25, 1696 
(ai. 7) 

3. 14, 1762 
Cd42) 



rb. Nov. 5, 1727 
-' d. Mar. 10, 1H04 
(, (h 86) 



rb. Dec. 22, 1689 
\ d. Nov. 8, 1767 



(h69) 



rb. Feb. 12, 1658 



fb. Feb. 
- d. 1712 
( (b68) 



Family of Ahraham Macy. 



199 



b. 9. 22, 1677 
m. 10. 15, 1706 
d. 1756 



b. 1636 
m. 1659 
d. 5. 1, 1727 



d. 25 July, 1650 Vf iii. 328 



b. 6. 23, 1683 

m. Dec. 25, 1703 1 

d. — 1743 ) i 108 



-)1108 
} ya i. : 



b. 2. 20, 16.52 
m. 2. 24, 1675 
d. 11. 11, 1716 



li 107 



b. — 1648 -) 

m. Apr. 11, 1669 ^h 67 
d. June 6, 1712 J 



Lydia Paddack was daughter of 

ISTathaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker. 

Nathaniel Paddack was son of 

Zechabiah Paddack and Deborah Sears. 

Zechariah Paddack was son of 
Robert Paddack and Mary . 

Priscilla Starbuck was daughter of 
Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Joanna Folger was daughter of 
Peter Polger and Mary Morrell. 

Lois Gorham was daughter of 

Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth Gardner. 
Stephen Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Mary Otis. 
John Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Desire Iloiuland. 
John Gorham was son of 

Ralph Gorham, son of James and Agnes Ben- 
nington. 

Judith Worth was daughter of 

John Worth and Miriam Gardner. 

John Worth was son of 

William Worth and Sarah Macy. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Ann Bunker was daughter of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 



(b. 9. 3, 1686 
- d. 1. 18, 1767 

( (i 188) 

fb. Sept., 1639 
■ d. Aug. 17, 1732 
I (eSr 32) 



r d. + 1650 
I (i 187) 



7. 22, 1763 
(i 108) 



3. 14, 1654 

4. 1, 1732 
(1107; g) 



fb. Dsc. 4, 1648 

d. 1729 
I (1167) 



200 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



d. 26 May, 1G58 If i. 299 



b. Sept., 1639 
m. 1659 



leSr 32 



Buried Aug. 26, " 
1676 i-eSr 32 



b. May 19, 1664 

m. 

d. 6. 1, 1723 



b. 1621 
m. i 1652 
d. 1. 16, 1684 



William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunkee. 

Deborah Sears was daughter of 

KiCHAED Seaes and Dorothy Thatcher.* 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Elizabeth Gardner was daughter of 
James Gardner and Mary Starhuck. 

James Gardner was son of 

RiCHAKD Gaednee and Sarah Shattuclc. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gaedinee and Margaret Frier. 

Mary Otis was daughter of 
John Otis and Mary Jacob. 

Desire Howland was daughter of 

John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. 

Miriam Gardner was daughter of 

Richaed Gaednee and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gaedinee and Margaret Erier. 

Sarah Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 



* It is not certain that she Vv-as his only wife or the mother of 
all, if any, of his children.— Sears Fam., p. 32. 

P. 37, Will of Eiehard Sears — " I do beseech my brother 
Thacher, with his two sons as friends, in trust, to see tliis my 
last will performed." See " Descendants of Richard Sears," by 
Samuel P. May, for doubts as to wife Dorothy and her parent- 
age. (Edition of 1890.) 



'd. Jane Swain 

Oct. 31, 1662 
L (ai. 1) 



rBuriedMar.ig, 

J. 1678-9 
( (eSr 32) 



fb. 3. 30,1663 

I (ai. 1) 



(d. +1683 
I (1183) 



Family of Abraham Macy. 201 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 



Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

iSTathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Elizabeth Tilley was daughter of 
John Tilley and . 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Children of Abraham Macy and Elizabeth Coleman 
descend also on the paternal side from: 
Thomas Macy (three times), 
William Bunker (twice), 
Richard Pinkham, 
Thomas Gardiner (three times), 
Richard Gardner (three times), 
Thomas Coleman, 
John Gorham, 
Ralph Gorham, 
Tristram Coffin (three times), 
James Coffin (twice), 
Edward Starbuck, 
Peter Folger, 
Christopher Hussey, 
John Howland, 
John Tilley, 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder. 



202 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

On the maternal side from: 
Thomas Coleman, 
Thomas Macy (three times), 
Zachariah Paddack, 
Edward Starbiick (twice), 
Peter Folger, 
John Gorham, 
Ealph Gorham, 

Thomas Gardiner (three times), 
Richard Gardner (three times), 
William Bunker, 
Richard Sears, 
Tristram Coffin (twice), 
John Otis, 
John Howland, 
John Tilley. 

Children of Townsend Powell and Catharine (Macy) 
were: 

Aaron Macy Powell married Judith Anna Rice. 
George T. Powell married Marcia Chace. 
Elizabeth Powell married Henry Herrick Bond. 

Aaron Macy Powell was a minister among Friends, 
and conspicuous in anti-slavery work; in his " Reminis- 
cences," published by his widow, he refers to his in- 
terest having been awakened in the anti-slavery cause 
by John Woolman, Elihu Coleman, Anthony Benezet, 
Benjamin Lundy and others, chiefly members of the 
Society of Friends. 

George T. Powell is director of the School of Prac- 
tical Agriculture and Horticulture at Briarcliff Manor, 
New York. 

Elizabeth Powell Bond has been Dean of Swarth- 
more College, Pennsylvania, since 1886. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



FAMILY OF JOSIAH MACY, OF NEW YORK. 



. 25, 1785 -) 
}. 6, 1805 V 



b. Feb. 25, 1785 

m. Feb. 

d. 



h 114, 
170 



b. Jan. 15, 1760 ■) 

m. Dec. 3, 1778 Vh 85, 

d. June 18, 1816) 115 



b. April 8, 1725 ~) 

m. July, 1744 ^5 69, 86 

d. June 17, 1798 J 



) a iii. 12; 
m. Apr. 25, 1707 Y U 



b. i 1675 

m. Apr. •; , 

d. Nov. 28, 1761 J 



I 67, 69 



b. July 14, 1665 

m. 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 

b. 1608 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



Jai. 4 



b. 6. 6, 1730 



b. 1. 14, 1705 
in. 10. 4, 1728 
d. 3. 2, 1782 



b. 
m. 
d. 1718 



} 

05 "I a 6 
28 0S Vci. 
2 )dl 

} 



a6 
43 
1781 



b. June 23, 1683 ) 1 420 
m. Dec. 25, 1703 ^a i. 8 ; 
d. J a iii. 12 

b. Feb. 20, 1651 1 g Iii. 
I 358 
m. Feb. 20, 1674-5 fil07 
d. j 

Bapt. Jan. 28, T 1 408 

1620-21 I 

m. 1643 r f ii. 281 

B'd Feb. 5, 1676 J 



b. 1575 
m. 
d. 1643 

b. 1550 
m. 1572 
d. 1.579 



1 1 407; g Iii., 
glii.. 



-il407;i 
y 357 
J 1407; I 
357 

/l407 



Josiah Macy married Lydia Hussey. 

.Tosiah Macy was son of 

.Tonathan Macy and Rose PinhJiam. 
.Tonathan Macy was son of 

Jonathan Macy and Lois Gorham. 
Jonathan Macy was son of 

John Macy and Judith Worth. 
John Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Rose Pinkham was daughter of 

Reuben Pinkham and Ann Starhuck. 

Reuben Pinkham was son of 

Theophilus Pinkham and Deborah Paddach. 

Theophilus Pinkham was son of 

Richard Pinkham and Mary Coffin. 

Lois Gorham was daughter of 

Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth Gardner. 
Stephen Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Mary Otis. 
John Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Desire Rowland. 
John Gorham was son of 

Ralph Gorham and . 

Ralph Gorham was son of 

James Gorham and Agnes Bennington. 



rb. Nov. 6, 1786 
d. Sept. 25, 1861 
L (h 170) 



fb. Feb. 22, 1758 
d. Nov. 7, 1853 
I (h 115) 

f b. Nov. 5, 1727 
d. Mar. 10, 1804 

I (h 86) 



fb. Dec. 22, 1689 
■{ d. Nov. 8, 1767 
C (1169) 



fb. Feb. 12, 1658 
d. 1712 

I (h 68) 

^b. 1612 
d. 1706 
L (h 67) 



(d 196) 



(b. 

J. d. 9. 23, 17.58 
I (d 178) 



fb. 1665 
d. Feb. 1, 1741 
L (g xxiv. 151) 



rBapt. May 1, 

i 1653 

( (g ii. 282) 



rd. Oct. 13, 1683 
L (g Iii. 358) 



204 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. May 19, 1666 -) a i. 1 
m. Sept. 22, 1684 Va, i. 4 



b. 1626 1 

m. 1662 1x361 

d. Jan. 23, 1688 J a 4 
d. Dec. 29, 1674 Ix 361 



b. Oct. 29, 1694 1 a i. 7 : 
I d 196 
m. 1.26,1718 08 fci. 13 
d. 5. 29, 1759 J d 196 

b. Aug., 1688 1 g xxiv. 

1 151 
m. Nov. 20, 1690 fib. 
d. 2. 9, 1753 Jib.;dl96 

b. i 1635 ~)al. 11 

m. 1662 Uc 50 

d. 6. 6, 1719 J a i. 11 



b. ± 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



ia4 



b. 9. 22, 1677 ■) 

m. 10. 15, 1706 ^il88 

d. 8, 1756 j 



b. Mar. 20, 1636 ^ e 

m. 1659 M'iii.328 

d. 1727 



;)e 
^fiii.328 



d. July 25, 1650 >fiii. 328 



b. Aug. 12, 1610 -1 g xxiv. 
m. Nov. or I 151 

Dec. 3, 1663 fib.; eK 
d. July 28, 1720 J ib. [32 



b. i 1605 
m. i 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



Jib, 



XXIV. 

[150 
ai.3 



b. May 19, 1664 }y 



b. 1626 ■) X 3f 

m. 1652 } 

d. Jan. 23, 1668 J a 4 



d. Dec. 29, 1674 



b. 1621 
m. i 1652 
d, 1. 16, 16S4 



}'"• 



Judith Worth was daughter of 
John Worth and Miriam Gardner. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

EicHAED Gardnee and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Ann Starbuck was daughter of 

Paul Starbuck and Ann Tibbetts. 
Paul Starbuck was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 
JSTathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edwajjd Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Deborah Paddack was daughter of 
Nathaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker. 

Nathaniel Paddack was son of 

Zachariah Paddack and Deborah 'Sears. 

Zachariah Paddack was son of 
Robert Paddack and Mary . 

Mary CofBn was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Elizabeth Gardner was daughter of 
James Gardner and Mary Starbuck. 

James Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

THoaLiS Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Mary Otis was daughter of 
John Otis and Mary Jacob. 



( b. 1632 
- d. 1724 



J. d. 7. 29, 1736 
( (d 196) 

(A. 8. 1, 1750 
- (d 196;gx.xiv. 
( 151) 

rb. Feb. 20, 1645 
-, (g xxiv. 160) 
(d. 9. 13, 1717 
(ib.; ai. 11) 



rb. 9. 3, 1686 
-, d. 1. 18, 1767 
I (i 188) 

rb. Sept., 1639 
I (eSr) 



f b. Aug. 5, 1645 
I (eK 32) 



rd. +1682 
L (eC) 



rb. Mar. 30, 1663 
d. 1690 

I (f.57) 

rb. 1632 
d. 1724 



r d. + 1683 

L (i 183) 



Family of Josiah Macy. 



205 



b. 1592 
m. ± 1622 
d. 2. 23, 1673 



m. Apr. 11, 1669 Ih 67 
d. June 6, 1712 ) 



d. May 26, 1658 Vf 1.299 



Buried Au^ 
1676 



b. ± 1634 
ra. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 



26,1 



^al. 4 

yeC56 
j a i. 11 



Desire Howland was daughter of 
John Howland and Elizabeth. Tilley. 

Miriam Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris — 



Ann Tibbetts was daughter of 

Ephraim Tibbetts and Rose Austin. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Ann Bunker was daughter of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 

William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunkek. 



Deborah Sears was daughter of 

Richard Sears and Dorothy Thatcher. 



Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 



rb. 1607 
d. 12. 21, 1687 



rd. 11. 28, 1674 
[ (X 361) 



rb. 1678 

L (ft 81) 



rb. Dec. 4, 1648 
d. 1729 
L (h 67) 

rd. (Swain) Oct. 

31, 1662 
I (a i. 1) 



r Buried March 
■). 19, 1678-9 
(. (eS 32) 



rb. Feb. 20, 1645 
(g xxiv. 150) 
Id. Sept. 13,1717 
(a i. 11) 



206 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. rl:1604 

m. 

d. 12. 4, 1690 



IQ. 1659 
d. 1663 



d. 4. 19, 1682 



b. 6. 18, 1760 
d. 6. 2, 1839 



J a I. 4 



\& i. • 



}» 



b. 11. 20, 1728-9 -) n 
m. 10. 29, 1748 OS >c 1.157 
d. 4. 12, 1805 J u 



b. 1682 

ra. 9. 8, 1723 

d. 2. 10, 1767 

b. 1642 

m. 10. 8, 1676 

d. 4. 2, 1718 



}'■ 

Jc 1. 

>s ii. 



b. 1599 ) Eng.Pari.sh 

m. > Records 

d. 3. 6, 1686 J 8 



b. 

m. 10.7,1749 
d. 6. 5, 1815 



Oslc 
Jd 



i. 170 
94 



Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Stahbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Elizabeth Tilley was daughter of 
John Tilley and . 

Rose Austin was daughter of 

Thomas Austin and Ann . 

Thomas Austin was son of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starhuch. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Mary CofBn was daughter of 

Tristkam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Lydia Hussey was daughter of 

Zaceheus Hussey and Lydia Folger. 
Zaccheus Hussey was son of 

Batchelder Hussey and Ann Coffin. 
Batchelder Hussey was son of 

Sylvanus Hussey and Hepzibah Starhuch. 
Sylvanus Hussey was son of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha BunJcer. 
Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelder. 

Lydia Folger was daughter of 

William Folger and Ruth Coffin. 
William Folger was son of 

Abishai Folger and Sarah Mayhew. 



(h. 1612 
A (i. 1706 
( (n67) 






4. 20, 1759 

(d94) 
4. 28, 1642 

(n) 

July 12, 1729 

I. 2, 1807 
(n) 

II. 8, 1700 

(a 7) 
12. 31, 1764 
(d) 

1656 

(f i. 299) 
9. 21, 1744 

(sii. 701) 

1619 
(s ii. 589) 



(b. 

\ a. 3. n, 1814 

t (d 94) 



207 



b. 1678 1 B xvi. 

m. Dec. 29, 1699 Va. i. 8 
d. 7. 2, 1747 OS jgxvi. 



b. 1648 
m. 1671 
d. Dec. 19, 1716 



^g xvi. 
I 270 



b 

m. Dec, 
d. Dec 



c. 28, 1737 [a 
;. 19, 1741 ) g 



i. 36 
xxlv. 

308 



b. Nov. 14, 1673 



h 



xxiv. 
152 



b. May 11, 1652 ^ g xxiv. 

[ 150 
d. May 18, 1734 j g xxiv. 
150 



d. May 26, 1658 Vf i. 299 



b. 1.561 
d. 1660 

b. June 12, 1694 

m. 

d. Mar. 4, 1768 , 

d. July 1, 1747 



Vs ii. 



g xxiv. 
. 305 
g xxiv. 
305 



^g xxiv 
) 151 



Family of Josidh Macy. 

Abishai Folger was son of 

Nathan Folger and Sarah Church. 
Nathan Folger was son of 

Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner, 
Eleazer Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Ann Coffin was daughter of 

Daniel Coffin and Elizabeth Stratton. 
Daniel Coffin was son of 

Peter Coffin * and • 

Peter Coffin was son of 

Stephen Coffin and Mary BunJcer. 
Stephen Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Hepzibah Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Keynolds. 

Martha Bunker was daughter of 
George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Theodate Batchelder was daughter of 
Kev. Stephen Batchelder. 

Kuth Coffin was daughter of 

Eichard Coffin and Ruth Bunker. 

Richard Coffin was son of 

John Coffin, Esq., and Hope Gardner. 



fd. 2. 13, 1745 OS 

1 (n) 



d. Dec. 19, 1729 



f d. De( 

i (g 



xvi.) 



rd. 1704 

1 (g xvi. 270) 



rb. 1652 

(fi. 299) 
Id. 1724 

(g xxiv. 152) 



fd. Swain, Oct. 

31, 1662 
I (a 1. 1) 



* Peter Coffin is said to have married in Boston, but there ap- 
pears no further record of him. 



rb. 1669 
d. Oct. 12, 1780 
[. (g xxiv. 305) 



208 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



m. Dec. 8, 1699 



b. 1591 
d. 1681 



Iflii. 



b. Feb. 25, 1675 



-g xxlv. 
151 



John Coffin, Esq., was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tkisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Sarah Mayhew was daughter of 

Paine Mayhew and Mary Eankin. 
Paine Mayhew was son of 

Matthew Mayhew and Mary Skiffe. 
Matthew Mayhew was son of 

Thomas JNIayhew, Jr., and Jane Paine. 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., was son of 

Thomas ]VIayhew, Sr. 

Sarah Gardner was daughter of 

Kichard Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Mary Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Buth Bunker was daughter of 

Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin. 
Jonathan Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 



fb. Oct. 3, 1677 
d. May 8, 1761 
I (qx. 106) 



rb. 1621 
L d. 1657 



fd. Mar. 30,1769 
L (g xxiv. 151) 



Family of Josiah Macy. 209 

William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 



Hope Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Elizabeth Coffin v/as daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance, 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 



Descendants of Josiah Macy and Lydia Hussey de- 
scend also from: 

Thomas Macy (three times), 

Richard Pinkham, 

Ralph Gorham, 

John Gorham, 

Thomas Gardiner (five times), 

Richard Gardner (five times), 

Edward Starbuck (four times), 

Zachariah Paddack, 

Tristram Coffin (nine times), 

John Otis, 

John Howland, 

John Tilley, 

William Bunker, French Huguenot (four times), 

Richard Sears (Yarmouth), 



210 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Joseph Austin, 
Christopher Hussey, 
Stephen Hussey, 
Peter Folger, 
Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 
James Coffin (five times), 
John Coffin, Esq. 
Thomas Mayhew, Sr., 
Thomas Mayhew, Jr. 

A daughter of Josiah Macy, Ann Eliza Macy, mar- 
ried Isaac Macy, of Nantucket, son of Thomas Macy. 

Another daughter, Lydia Hussey Macy, married, 
first, Jonathan Hasbrouck Stanton, Esq.; second, 
William R. Austin, of Boston. 

Josiah H. Macy, son of Jonathan Hasbrouck 
Stanton, Esq., and Lydia Hussey (Macy), bore his 
name through act of legislature, his grandfather, Josiah 
Macy, making application for the change. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



COK]!fELL COIi^A^ECTION WITH NANTUCKET, 



m. July 4, 1805 ^uCr 

b. 1. 24, 1743 1 1 10 
m. Dec. 4, 1767, 

by Caleb 

Bunker J. P. 

Nantucket 

Court J a i. 81 



Hon. Alonzo B. Cornell, twenty-fifth Governor of 
the State of Xew York, was inaugurated January 1st, 
1880. He was son of 

Ezra Cornell and Mary Ann Wood. 
Ezra Cornell was son of 

Elijah Cornell and Eunice Barnard. 
Eunice Barnard was daughter of 

Reuben Barnard of Xantucket, who married 
Phebe Coleman, also of Xantucket. 



b. 6. 8, 1718 
m. 11, 14, 1741 
d. 4. 30, 1800 



b. 

m. 11. 3, 1711 

d. 8 m, 1739 



,dfi 

1107 



jd8 



b. Nov. 24, 1672^ a 1. 2 
d. 2. 29, 1718 ) a i. 17 



b. Jan. 15, 1643 
d. 4. 3, 1713 

d. ± 1677 



y40 
j a i. 12 



b. ± 1687 
d. Mar. 16, 



1759 J 



b. July 14, 1655 ) h 67 

m. > 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 j h 67 

d. 4. 19, 1682 la i. 4 



b. 

d. 1713 

b. 1626 
m. 1652 
d. Jan. 23, 1668 



J g xxiv 
151 

■)x361 
Vfii. 229 
JaL4 



Reuben Barnard was son of 

Francis Barnard and Elizabeth Macy. 
Francis Barnard was son of 

Benjamin Barnard and Judith Gardner. 
Benjamin Barnard was son of 

Xathaniel Barnard, Jr., and Elizabeth Cofjtn. 
Xathaniel Barnard, Jr., was son of 

Xathaniel Barnard, Sr., and Mary Barnard. 
Xathaniel Barnard, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Barnard and Eleanor . 

Elizabeth Macy was daughter of 
Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin. 

Thomas Macy was son of 

John Macy and Deborah Gardner. 

John Macy was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Judith Gardner was daughter of 

Xathaniel Gardner and Abigail Coffin. 

Xathaniel Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah STiatluck. 



fb. June 9, 1722 
i d. June 1, 1765 
( (Jo. 78) 



rd. 9. 17, 1765 
L (d8) 



f b. Sept. 9, 1665 
I, (g xxiv. 152) 



fd. (Little) 

} Nov. 27, 1694 

I (t49) 



f d. Sept. 23, 1760 
1 (g xxiv. 152) 



rb. Feb. 12, 1653 
J fh 68) 
(,d. 1712 
(h68) 

fb. 1612 
< d. 1706 
I (b 67) 



J d. Mar. 15, 1709 
( (g xxiv. 151 ) 

f b. 1632 
\ d. 1724 



212 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



d. Dec. 29, 1674 



Ifii. ' 



b. — 1634 •) a i. 11 

m. 1662 UC 56 

d. 6. 6, 1719 J a i. 11 



b. ± 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



>-a i 



},. 



b. Oct. 30, 1647 

m. 

d. Sept. 5, 1711 


■)g xxiv 
V 151 
J g xxiv 
151 


b. ± 1605 

m. ± 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 


-) g xxiv 
( 150 
fib. 
J a i. 3 



b. Aug. 12, 16401 ^ 'fxiv. 
m. Nov. or 1 151 

Dec. 3, 1663 f ib.;eK32 
d. July 28, 1720 J ib. 

b. ± 1605 ■) g xxiv. 

150 
m. ± 1630 >g xxiv. 

I 150 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 J a i. 3 



b. 

m. i 1659 
d. 1663 



}"■ 



Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Elizabeth Coffin (wife of Nathaniel Barnard, Jr.,) 
was widow of Peter Coffin, Jr., and 
daughter of 
iN'athaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Barnard was daughter of 

Robert Barnard and Joanna Harvey. 

Deborah Coffin was daughter of 

John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 
John Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Abigail Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Sarah Shattuck, Sr., was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 



b. Feb. 20, 1645 
(g xxiv. 150) 

d. Sept. 13, 1717 
(lb.; a ii. 11) 



r d. Mar. 31, 1705 
L (a i. 38) 



; d. Feb. 4, 1718 
I (g xxiv. 152) 



fil. + 1682 
1 (eC) 



'b. Aug. 5, 1645 
(eK 32) 



'd. +1682 
(eC) 



rd. 11. 28, 1674 
(X 361) 



Cornell Connection. 



213 



b. 7. 12, 1719 

m. 

d. 



b. 

m. 8. 20, 1718 
d. 1. 12, 1772 



d. 1715 
Est. settled 
Mar. 2, 1715- 



[c i. 12 
id 

eC17 
n 

6 J b A i. 36 

fi. 431 



, 1722 I a i 
8, 1740 in 



b. Oct. 11, 1722 ^ai. 16 
d. April 8, 



b. Sept. 16, 1661 ) s 987 
m. May 12, 1687 >8 988 

b. as early asT 
1626 I 

m. Nov. 1, 1647 f 
d. June 29, 1677 J s 988 



>g xvi. 270 



m. Maya, 1701 



b. 1599 



-2 >& i 



1 Eng. 

I Parish 
m. f Records 

d. Mar. 6, 1686 J s 



Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Keynolds. 



Phebe Coleman, wife of Reuben Barnard, was 

daughter of 

Daniel Coleman and Elizabeth Mooers. : '^ 
Daniel Coleman was son of 

Solomon Coleman and Deliverance 8wett.^ 
Solomon Coleman was son of 

John Coleman and Joanna Folger. 
John Coleman was son of 

Thomas Coleman and Susanna . 

Elizabeth Mooers was daughter of 

Jonathan Mooers f and Elizabeth Odar. 

Deliverance Swett was daughter of 

Moses Swett and Mary Hussey. 
Moses Swett was son of 

Benjamin Swett and Hester Weare. 

Joanna Eolger was daughter of 
Peter Folgee and Mary Morrell. 

Elizabeth Odar was daughter of 
Anthony Odak and Sarah Folger. 

Mary Hussey was daughter of 

John Hussey and Rebecca Perkins. 

John Hussey was son of 

Christopher, Hussey and Theodate Bachelor. 



* Will of Moses Swett, 15th April, 1719, proved 19th January, 
1731, mentions daughter Deliverance Coleman (N. E. His. & Gen. 
Reg., Vol. VI., p. 57.) 
M- f W. C. Folger says: Nantucket "Inquirer" of 4. 23. 1862.— 
Jonathan Mooer was a very probable son of Jonathan, who was 
son of Jonathan, who was son of Edward, who died in 1640, aged 
26 years. 



rb. July 27, 1723 

I (n) 



rb. 

\ (s 987; 
(d. 8. 2, 1783 
(d40) 

f d. 5. 18, 1719 

I (a i. 12) 



rd. Nov. 16,1650 
t (e CI 6) 



fb. Sept. 16, 1703 
d. Apr. 22, 1784 
L (n) 



rb. ± 1629 
d. Jan. 16, 1718 

L (S 988) 



rd. 1704 

(g xvi. 270) 



fd. Mar. 23, 1732 
L (g xvi. 270) 



fd. Oct., 1649 

I. (s ii. 589) 



214 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. ± 1648 
m. 1671 
d. 1716 



^g xvi. 



b. 1561 
d. 1660 



Hester Weare was daughter of 
Nathaniel Weare. 

Sarah Folger was daughter of 

Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner. 

Eleazer Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Rebecca Perkins was daughter of 
Isaac Perkins and Susanna . 



rd. Dec. 19, 1729 
(gxvi.) 



Theodate Bachelor was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Bachelor. 

Sarah Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Descendants from Reuben Barnard and Phebe Cole- 
man descend also from: 
Thomas Barnard, 
Robert Barnard, 
Thomas Macj, 

Richard Gardner (three times), 
Thomas Gardiner (three times), 
Edward Starbuck (twice), 
Tristram Coffin (three times), 
James Coffin, 
Lieutenant John Coffin, 
John Hussej, 
Christopher Hussey, 
Isaac Perkins, 
Rev. Stephen Bachelor, 
Thomas Coleman, 
Moses Swett, 
Benjamin Swett, 
Peter Folger (twice), 
Anthony Odar (Isle of Wight). 



Cornell Connection. 315 

Phebe (Coleman) Barnard's family removed to Nine 
Partners, N. Y., 10. 26. 1778. She and her children 
were received as members of Friends' Meeting at Nan- 
tucket, 8. 31. 1778 (Friends' Kecords of Nantucket). 

Two of the Cornell family married into the Thorne 
family, of Flushing, L. I., viz.: 

Richard and Joshua, sons of John Cornell, and Mary 
(Russell), of Rhode Island, removed to Cowneck, in 
1676, and married respectively Hannah and Sarah 
Thorne. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



THE COGGESHALL FAMILY 



b. 6. 2, 1802 
m. 11. 21, 1833 
d. 2. 21, 1885 


luM 


b. 8. 28, 1758 
m. 3. 10, 1793 

d. 


VuM 


m. 1. 19, 1738 


}" 


b. Dec. 17, 1672 


jj^O 


b. 1623 

m. Dec. 22, 1651 

d. May 1, 1688 


}j49 


b. 1591 


\ 


d. Nov. 27, 164- 


Jj-19 


b. England 
m. 6. 3, 1768 
d. 1. 10, 1805 


|a 
JuM 


b. June 18, 1709 
m. Oct., 1729 
d. Nov. 27, 1788 


^g xxiv. 
) 308 


b. Aug. 9, 1668 

m. Nov. 20, 169C 
d. Jan. 29, 1753 


1 gxxiv. 
I151;ai.l 
fib. 
Jib. 



b. ± 1634 ■) a i. U 

m. 1602 Uc 56 

d. 6. 6, 1719 J a i. 11 

b. zt 1604 -) 

Vaj. 4 
d. 12. 4, 1690 J 



Giles H. Coggeshall married Marianna Walters. 

Giles H. Coggeshall was son of 

Caleb Coggeshall and Elizabeth Hosier. 
Caleb Coggeshall was son of 

Job Coggeshall and Deborah Starhiick* 
Job Coggeshall was son of 

Caleb Coggeshall and Mercy Mitchell. 
Caleb Coggeshall was son of 

Joshua Coggeshall and Joan West. 
Joshua Coggeshall was son of 

John Coggeshall and Mary Stanton. 

Elizabeth Hosier was daughter of 
Giles Hosier and Elizabeth Mitchell. 



Deborah Starbuck was daughter of 

Tristram Starbuck and Deborah Coffin. 
Tristram Starbuck was son of 

Xathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck Sr., was son of 

Edward Stakbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



/ d. 5. 9, 
I (u 



* Deborah Coggeshall, daughter of Job and Deborah (Starbuck) 
Coggeshall, married, as second wife, Paul Macy, a descendant of 
Thomas Macy. 

Note. — Mary Stanton, born 6. 4, 1668, was daughter of John Stan- 
ton, who was son of Robert Stanton, Robert being the progeni- 
tor, also, of the Edwin M. Stanton family. 



M) 



rb. 3. 14, 1770 
d. 6. 20, 1851 

I (UM) 



fb. 1. 19, 1739 
d. 10. 13, 1781 

I (n) 



fb. 1631 
d. Apr. 24, 1676 

I U 49) 



rb. 1604 

-^d. — Nov.8,1684 
(. (J 49) 



rb. 5. 9, 1746 

(UM) 
Id. 1826 or 27 

(uM) 



b. 1708 
d. 1789 

(g xxiv. 308) 



/d. Aue. 1, 1750 
I. (g xxiv. 151) 



rb. Feb. 20, 1645 
J. (g xxiv. 150) 
(d. 9. 13, 1717 

(ai. 11) 



The Coggeshall Family. 



217 



b. 4. 20, 1715 ") uM 
m. 1. 2, 1738 Vc i. 8 
d. 10. 5, 1799 ) uM 



b. i 1686 
m. ± 1708 
d. 1722 



b. 12. 12, 1680 
m. 1705 at Nan, 
d. Feb. 22, 1764 



. la iil. 



12 
xxiv. 



b. Oct. 30, 1647 ~) g xxiv. 
m. }■ 151 

d. Sept. 5, 1711 J g xxiv. 

151 
b. ± 1605 I 

m. i 1630 



d. Oct. 2, 1681 



I g XXIV. 

f 150 
lai. 3 



b. Aug. 12, 1640"! g xxiv. 
m. Nov. or ! 151 

Dec. 3, 1663 f ib.;eK32 
d. July 28, 1720 J g xxiv. 
151 



b. 8. 17, 1689 -) a i. 15 
m. 12. 1, 1710-11 >c i. 6 
d. 4. 19, 17720S)di. 93 



b. 1659 

m. 

d. 8. 23,1732 08 



d. 1690 



1° 

ijn 



^g xvi. 



b. =t 1656 ~) 

m. Jan. 19, 1681-2 
d. May 30, 1730 J 



■b. Oct. 23, 1653 -) 
m. May 17, 1674 I y 
Will proved fb A i. 
July 17, 1728 J 135 



Elizabeth Mitchell was daughter of 

James Mitchell and Ann Folger. 
James Mitchell was son of 

KiCHAED Mitchell and Elizabeth Tripp. 
Richard Mitchell was son of 

EicHAED Mitchell and Mary Wood. 

Deborah CoflSn was daughter of 

Samuel Coffin and Miriam Gardner. 

Samuel Coffin was son of 

Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 

Lieutenant John Coffin was son of 

Tkisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Ann Folger was daughter of 

Jethro Folger and Mary Starhuck. 
Jethro Folger was son of 

John Folger and Mary Barnard. 
John Folger was son of 

Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Elizabeth Tripp was daughter of 

James Teipp and Mercy Lawton. 
James Tripp was son of 

John Tripp and Mary Paine. 

Miriam Gardner was daughter of 
Richard Gardner ^ and Mary Austin. 



fb. 11. 6, 1720 
(d i. 93) 

Id. 8. 6, 1777 
(uM) 

r b. i 1685 

d. 1740 
l (o iv.) 



fb. July 14, 1685 
d. Sept. 17, 1750 
I (g xxiv. 308) 



rd. Feb. 4, 1718 
I. (g xxiv. 152) 



rd. -f-1682 

L (eC) 



fb. Aug. 5, 1645 
t (eK 32) 



rb. Dec. 31, 1692 

(a 1. 7) 
Id. 7. 22, 1773 

(d 1. 93) 

rb. Feb. 24, 1667 

(a i. 1) 
Id. 8. 6, 1737 OS 



rd. 1704 

L (g xvi.) 



d. ± 1685 



rd. Junel, 1721 

L (y) los 



218 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 1626 

m. 1652 

d. Jan. 23, 1668 



■|x3( 
Jal. 



x36l; 
4 



d. Dec. 29, 1674 Vs. 



b. 

m. 1659 
d. 1663 



3) t49 
^b Ai. 
J a i. 12 



b.^Jan. 15, 1642-3 -(t 49 
d. 4. 3, 1718 



d. ± 1677 



b. 

m. 1659 

d. 1663 



}"■ 



Eichard Gardner ^ was son of 

EiCHARD Gardner ^ and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner ^ was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 



Deborah Austin was daughter of 
Joseph Austin and Sarah Starbuck. 



Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., was son of 

Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 
Nathaniel Starbuck Sr., was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Mary Barnard was daughter of 

Nathaniel Barnard and Mary Barnard. 

Nathaniel Barnard was son of 

Thomas Barnard and Eleanor . 



Mercy Lawton was daughter of 

George Lawton and Elizabeth Hazard. 



Mary Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starhuck. 



Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck, Sr., and Damaris 



Dinah Coffin was daughter of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



rb. 1632 
A. 1724 



(A. 1. 17,1717-18 
I (a 1. 12) 



d. (Little) 
Nov. 27, : 
(t49) 



(X 361) 



The Coggeshall Family. 



219 



d. 1682 



Mary Coffin was daughter of 

Tkistkam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mary Barnard was daughter of 

Robert Barnard and Joanna Harvey. 

Elizabeth Hazard was daughter of 
Thomas Hazard and Martha . 



Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Descendants from Giles H. Coggeshall and Marianna 
Walters descend also from: 
John Coggeshall, 
Joshua Coggeshall, 
Edward Starbuck (four times), 
George Lawton, 
Thomas Hazard, 
Joseph Austin (twice), 
Tristram Coffin (five times), 
James Coffin (twice). 
Lieutenant John Coffin, 
Richard Mitchell ^ (Rhode Island), 
Richard Mitchell,^ 
Peter Folger, 
John Tripp, 
James Tripp, 
Thomas Gardiner, 
Richard Gardner, 
Thomas Barnard, 
Robert Barnard. 



John Coggeshall was Deputy to Massachusetts Court, 
1634-37. (Mass. Col. Rec. Vol. L, pp. 116, 135, etc.) 
Assistant :N'ewport, R. I., 1640-44 (R. I. Col. Rec. Vol. 
L, pp. 101, 110, etc.) President of R. I. Colony, 1647. 



220 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

(R I. Col. Eec. Vol I., p. 148.) Treasurer, 1664-1672. 
(Pierce's Lists, p. 121.) 

Elizabeth Coggeshall, daughter of Giles Hozier and 
Elizabeth (Mitchell) Hozier, was born at Newport, 
Khode Island, on the " 14th of Third month, 1770." 

In 1793 she married Caleb Coggeshall, and in 1802 
they removed to New York. 

She was a minister of the Society of Friends, active 
in the old world, and in our own country, visiting meet- 
ings and families, wherever there was a settlement of 
Friends. 

During a period of thirteen years she visited all the 
meetings of Friends in America. Her second pilgrim- 
age to England was made in 1813, when the war be- 
tween England and America was in progress, and trans- 
portation was difficult; application was made to the 
Government, and Elizabeth Coggeshall was permitted 
to take passage in company with prisoners of war. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



STANTON CONNECTION WITH NANTUCKET. 



b. Dec. 19, 1814 "j 

d. Dec. 24, 1869 j 
b. 5. 1, 1788 ") 
m. Feb. 24, 1814 >uSt 
d. Nov. 5, 1873 J 
b. 1746 ■) 
m. 1774 5-h 83 
d. 1799 ) 



b. 6. 25, 1683 
m. ± 1745 
d. 1751 



b. 1645 

d. Oct. 3, 1713 



Ust 



b. 1598-9 I 

d. Aug. 29, 1672 Just 



b. Sept. 12, 1714 
m. Nov., 1739 
d. 10. 13, 1778 



lh68,S 
jdNC 



b. ± 1675 -) 

m. April 25, 1707 ^h 67, ( 

d. Nov. 28, 1751 J 



b. July 14, 1655 

m. 

d. Oct. 14, 1691 . 



d. 4. 19, 1682 



^ai. 4 



b. July 1, 1680) g xxiv. 
m. > 152; ai. 

d. Junel7,1760j g xxiv. 
152 



b. Oct. 23, 1653 
m. May 17, 1674 
d. May 3, 1728 ~ 



^4} 
OSjn 



b. 1626 
m. 1652 
d. Jan. 23, 1668 



x361; 



1x3i 
jal. 



Edwin McMasters Stanton was son of 

David Stanton and Lucj Latham Norman. 
David Stanton was son of 

Benjamin Stanton and Abigail Macy. 
Benjamin Stanton was son of 

Henry Stanton and Lydia Albertson. 
Henry Stanton was son of 

John Stanton and Mary (Clarke) Cranston. 
John Stanton was son of 

Robert Stanton and Avis . 



Abigail Macy was daughter of 

David Macy and Dinah Gardner. 
David Macy was son of 

John Macy, Jr., and Judith Worth. 
John Macy, Jr., was son of 

John Macy, Sr., and Deborah Gardner. 
John Macy, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopco^. 



Dinah Gardner was daughter of 
Solomon Gardner and Anna Coffin. 

Solomon Gardner was son of 

Richard Gardner, Jr., and Mary Austin. 

Richard Gardner, Jr., was son of 

Richard Gardner, Sr., and Sarah Shattuck. 



Note. — Other members of this family of the name, who have 
located on or lived in and near Nantucket, appear to have de- 
scended from John, a half-brother of Henry Stanton. 



fb. Nov. 27, 1793 
d. Nov. 5, 1873 

L (ust) 

fb. 1753 
d. 1824 
L (h82) 



fb. 1641 

d. April 7, 1711 
L (uSt) 



d. 6. 13, 1796 

L (dNC) 



fb. Dec. 22, 1689 
d. Nov. 8, 1767 
I (h 69) 

fb. Feb. 12, 1658 
d. 1712 
I (b 68) 

fb. 1612 
d. 1706 
I (h 67) 



d. Apr. 22, 1740 
L (g xxiv. 152) 



fd. Junel, 1721 

I (y) [OS 



{^d-. 



1724 



222 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



cfil. 230 



b. May 19, 1666 

m. 1684 

d. 



b. ) 

m. April 11, 1665 S 
d. Oct., 1724 J h 67 



b. May 11, 1652 

m. 

d. May 18, 1734 



b. ± 1605 
m. i 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



b. 1659 
d. 1663 



Jib. 

i-g xxi 
Jai. 3 



XXIV. 

[150 



k 



d. May 26, 1658 



}"• 



299 



b. zt 1604 

m. 

d. 4. 12, 1690 



jai. 4 



Eichard Gardner, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Judith Worth was daughter of 

John Worth and Miriam Gardner. 

John Worth was son of 

William Worth and Sarah Macy. 

Deborah Gardner was daughter of 

KicHARD Gardner, Sr., and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Anna Coffin was daughter of 

Stephen Coffin and Mary Bunker. 

Stephen Coffin was son of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Austin was daughter of 

Joseph Austin and Sarah Starhuck. 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 



Miriam Gardner was daughter of 

Richard Gardner, Sr., and Sarah Shattuck. 
Richard Gardner, Sr., was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Sarah Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Mary Bunker was daughter of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Sarah Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



fb. July 14,1665 
I (a L 4) 



rb. Aug. 1, 1646 
d. 1701 

l (h 67) 



rb. ± 1652 

(fi. 299) 
Id. 1724 

(g xxiv. 152) 

rd. + 1682 

L (eC) 



(Quint's Old 
< Dover, 
(. pp. 130-131 



rd. Oct. 31,1662 
L (a i. 1) 



Stanton Connection. 333 

Descendants of Benjamin Stanton and Abigail Macy 
descend also from: 

Thomas Macy (twice), 
Richard Gardner (three times), 
Thomas Gardner (three times), 
Tristram Coffin, 
Edward Starbuck, 
William Bunker. 



CHAPTEK XXXII. 



COJiTNECTION OF THE WATERMAN FAMILY WITH NANTUCKET. 



m. Aug. 26, 1794 



lal. 






D.March 5, 17451 

m. Feb. 22, 1769 >-a i. 83 

d. Jan. 22, 1824 ) 



b. Mar. 24, 1723-) g xxiv. 

> 307 
d. Mar. 14, 1789 J ib. 

b. Aug. 28, 1692 ■) g xxiv, 
m. Nov. 24, 1711 J-ib. 



d. Feb. 5, 1773 ) ib. 



[306 



b. Aug. 12, 1640)1 g xxiv. 
m. Nov. or ( 151 

Dec. 3, 1663 fib.;eK32 
d. July 28, 1720 J ib. 

b. i 1605 -) eC 18 ; 

m. i 1630 Vg xxiv. 

d. Oct. 2, 1681 J 150 ; 
ai. 3 



b. July 28, 1698 ■) g xxiv. 

y 309 
d. Jan. 15, 1780 J ib. 



b. Sept. 16, 1663-)gxxiv. 
m. y 152 

d. 1726 ) ib. 

b. 1631 . ~( g xxiv. 
m. y 150 

d. Mar. 21, 1715 j ib. 



Alexander McKenzie, Pastor of the First 
Church (Congregational), Cambridge, Mass., de- 
scends from ISTantucket settlers through the mar- 
riage of his grandfather 
Martin McKenzie and Hepzibeth Waterman. 



Hepzibeth Waterman was daughter of 

Thaddeus * Waterman and Hepzibah Coffin. 



Hepzibah Coffin was daughter of 

Jonathan Coffin and Priscilla Coffin. 
Jonathan Coffin was son of 

Jonathan Coffin and Hepzibah Harker. 
Jonathan Coffin was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 
James Coffin was son of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Priscilla Coffin was daughter of 
Josiah Coffin and Elizabeth Coffin. 

Josiah Coffin was son of 

Jethro Coffin and Mary Gardner. 

Jethro Coffin was son of 

Peter Coffin and Abigail Starhuch. 



* The Town Records give the name Thaddeus ; family tradition 
says Jedidiah; it is not impossible that a Recorder's mind may 
lapse for a moment and a Christian name may be handed down 
incorrectly, since all human agencies fail sometimes. The rec- 
ords, however, will continue to be accepted, as there is no 
higher authority. 



f b. Jan. 9, 1754 
1 d. Oct. 16, 1841 



rb. Oct. 19, 1723 

(g xxiv. 309) 

Ld. Mar. 27, 1796 



fb. 1694 

d. Dec. 31, 1773 
L (g xxiv. 307) 



rb. Aug. 5, 1645 

L (eK 32) 



^d. +1682 
: (eC) 



rb. Oct. 27, 1703 
d. 1774 
[ (g xxiv. 154) 



rb. May, 1670 
' d. Oct. 27, 1767 
L (g xxiv. 153) 



Waterman Connection. 



225 



n. May 19, 1692 J-g xxiv. 
1. Aug. 2, 1741 ) ib. [154 



I. May 6, 1706 



}. 



-f ii. 230 



I. ± 1604 

n. 

I. 12. 4, 1696 



Jai. 



Peter Coffin was son of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Hepzibah Harker was daughter of 

Ebenezer Harker * and Patience Folger. 



Elizabetli Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Ruth Gardner. 

James Coffin was son of 

James Coffin and Mary Severance. 

James Coffin was son of 

Tristeam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



Mary Gardner was daughter of 

John Gaednee and Priscilla Grafton. 

John Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gaedinee and Margaret Prier. 



Abigail Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Staebuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Patience Polger was daughter of 
Petee Polgee and Mary Morrell. 



Ruth Gardner was daughter of 

John Gaednee and Priscilla Grafton. 

John Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gaedinee and Margaret Frier. 



* William C. Folger expresses doubt of given name of Mx. 
Harker. 

t Also, Essex County Probate Records at Salem. Will dated 
July 10th, 1668, mentions sons Thomas, John, George, Samuel, 
Eichard and Joseph; daughters Sarah Balch, Ruth Grafton and 
Miriam Hills. 



fb. Jan. 26,1676-7 
d. Oct. 4, 1748 
L (g xxiv. 154) 



-d. 1705 

. ( g xvi. 270) 



226 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Descendants from Thaddeus "Waterman and Hep- 
zibeth (Coffin) descend also from : 
Tristram Coffin (three times), 
Peter Coffin, 
James Coffin (twice), 
Thomas Gardiner (twice), 
John Gardner (twice), 
Edward Starbuck, 
Peter Folger. 

Avis Waterman, sister of Hepzibah, and daughter of 
Thaddeus Waterman and Hepzibah (Coffin), married 
John Sherman, Jr., whose daughter, Lydia Spooner 
Sherman, married Simeon Smith Bicknell, Preceptor in 
Marblehead Academy, afterwards pastor and instructor 
in Vermont, New York and Wisconsin. 

The daughter of Simeon Smith Bicknell, Lydia Ma- 
tilda Bicknell, married Norman Fox Hopkins. 

New England History and Genealogical Register, 
Vol. XIV., p. 373, gives the following account of Cap- 
tain Robert Waterman, of New Orleans, brother of 
Avis and Hepzibeth Waterman. He was born in 1785 
and died April 29th, 1860: 

" He was a native of Nantucket, and, like most of 
those hardy islanders, followed the sea from boyhood, 
commencing at the age of eleven years. 

" For some time he commanded one of the packet 
ships between New York and Liverpool. He was a fine 
specimen of the American shipmaster of the old school, 
courageous, courteous and inflexibly honest." 



CHAPTEE XXXIII. 



THE WADLEY, OK "WADLEIGH, FAMILY. 



The family of Dole Wadley includes many names of 

IN'antucket settlers, or of those closely associated with 
them. 

Dole "Wadley married, September, 1860, 
Elizabeth Carrol Pierce. 

Their daughter, Sarah "Wadleigh, married Edward 
Everett Capehart. 



b. Oct. 19, 1782 
m. Feb, 
d. June 6 



9, 1782 -) 

2, 1812 Vq vii 

S, 1826 ) 73 



b. Nov. 3, 1743 ^ 
m. - ib. 

d. April 5, 1821 ) 



t. 7, 1711 •) 
1. 5, 1737 V ib. 
. 23, 1792 J 



b. Sept. 7, 1711 
m. Jan 
d. Jan, 



b. 1725 
m. 
d. 1824 



}" 



L 425 



b. May 20, 1695 vs 644 



b. ± 1655 
d. Oct. 5 



5 y 

, 1736 j 



b. 1615 or 16 

m. 

d. Feb. 10, 1682 



m. [s643 



b. July 2, 1702 -| 
m. Dec. 21, 1731 )■ 
d. Jan. 4, 1776 ) eNC 30 

b. July 29, 1689 "i ib. 27 
m. Mar. 7, 1709 ^ib. 29 
d. May 3, 1753 J ib. 27 



Dole "Wadleigh, or "Wadley, was son of 
Dole "Wadley and Sarah Colcord. 

Dole "Wadley was son of 

Joseph "Wadley and Elizabeth Dole. 

Joseph Wadley was son of 

Joseph "Wadleigh and Anne Swa ine. 

Sarah Colcord was daughter of 

John Colcord and Lydia Morrill. 
John Colcord was son of 

Ebenezer Colcord and Patience Stevens. 
Ebenezer Colcord was son of 

Ebenezer Colcord and Hannah Fellows. 
Ebenezer Colcord was son of 

Samuel Colcord and Mary Ayer. 
Samuel Colcord was son of 

Edward Colcord and Ann . 

Elizabeth Dole was daughter of 
Benjamin Dole and Sarah Clark.* 

Sarah Clark was daughter of 

Xathaniel Clark and Sarah Greenleaf. 



rb. Mar. 2, 1744 
L (q viii. 73) 



rb. 1710 
L (8 9 



f b. July 20, 1697 
1 (tT " 



;156) 



rb. March 22, 
L 1660-1 



b. Nov. 3, 1692 
(eNC27) 



c. 



* N. E. Reg., 1884, p. 78, 
Sarati Clark. 



savs: Supposed to have married 



228 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. Mar. 13,1666 1 eNC 21 
m. Dec. 15, 1685 } ib. 24 
d. Oct., 1690 Jib. 21 



b. 1644. ^ w 1, 384 

m. Nov. 23, 1663 S-eNC 20 
d. Aug. 25, 1690jib. 16 



m. Oct. 20, 
d. 



b. i 1619 

m. 

d. Oct. 20, 1657 



b. 1600 
d. Apr. 



\ 1676 I s 986 

Is 986; n 

|eS5 
14, 1682 J a i. 3 



Pub.tFeb.19,1728-9 
d. 1757 ) 



b. Jan. 13, 1646 
m. Jan. 2, 1681 



b. i 1612 

m. 

d. i 1677 



b. Oct. 30, 1665 •) 1 184 
m. Mar. 1,1685-6 >t 186 
d. Aug. 6, 1694 ) 



Bapt. Aug. 10, 1628^ 

m. Nov. 13, 1651 |-tl83 



b. ± 1590 

m. 

d. Mar. 



590 , 

.24, 1670-71 j 



Bapt. Mar. 17,1612^ 

m. 

d. Oct. 2, 1652 J 



f iv. 
140 



IsTathaniel Clark was son of 

Nathaniel Clark and Elizabeth Toppan. 
JSTathaniel Clark was son of 

ISTathaniel Clark and Elizabeth Somerhy. 



Ann Swaine was daughter of 
Caleb Swaine and Hannah ■ 
Caleb Swain was son of 



William Swain and Mary Webster. 
William Swain was son of 

William Swain and Prudence Marston. 
William Swain was son of 

Richard Swain and , 

Lydia Morrill was daughter of 

William Morrill and Lydia Trask. 

William Morrill was son of 

Abraham Morrill and Eleanor True. 

Hannah Fellows was daughter of 

Samuel Fellows and Abigail Barnard. 

Abigail Barnard was daughter of 
Thomas Barnard and Eleanor . 

Sarah Greenleaf was daughter of 
Samuel Greenleaf and Sarah Kent. 

Samuel Greenleaf was son of 

Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin. 

Stephen Greenleaf was son of 

Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole. 

Elizabeth Somerby was daughter of 
Henry Somerby and Judith Greenleaf. 

Judith Greenleaf * was daughter of 
Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole. 



* Judith (Greenleaf), widow of Henry Somerby, married Tris- 
tram CoflRn, Jr. 
f Banns published. 



f b. Oct. 16, 1665 

I (eNC 24) 



fb. Nov. 1, 1646 
d. Mar. 15,1716 
Uib.20;fiv. 140) 



r b. Dec. 19, 1658 
L (s 1033) 



rb. Nov. 4, 1705 

(t 326) 
Id. — 1734-5 

(t335) 



r b. Jan. 20, 1656 
L (t50) 



["d. Little, 

Nov. 27, 1694 
(t49) 



f d. Nov. 19, 1678 
I (t 184); 



f d. Jan. 18, 1663 
I (t 183) 



'b. Sept. 2, 1625 
d. Dec. 15, 1705 
L (t 183) 



The Wadley Family. 



229 



1p334 



b. 1670 

m. 1692 , 

d. Mar. 8, 1733-4 J 



b. 1650 'l t 50 
m. Oct. 28, 1673 Vt 326 
d. Mar. 13, 1689-90 j 



b. i 1612 

m. 

d. ± 1677 



b. =fc 1605 
m. ± 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



^g xxiv. 

I 150 



b. July 22, 1710 •) eS 67 
m. Mar. 16, 1758 ^eF 91 
d. ) 



b. Sept. 7, 1692 ~) 

m. Mar. 11, 1721-2 VeB425 

d. April 3, 1775 j 



b. Feb. 16, 1653-4 ■) eB 413 

m. 1678 V 

d. July 9, 1726 ) eB 415 

Bapt. Jan. 28,1 

1620-21 leB408 

m. 1643 f 

d. Feb. 5, 1676 J 



b. 1575 

m. 

d. ± 1643 



leB4i 
Jglii. 



407 
257 



b. Aug. 3, 1709 ■) eF 51 
m. Jan. 29, 1730-1 ^ 



b. July, 1678 
m. ± 1701 



m. Dec. 18, 1672 V 

d. July 27, 1721 J eF 35 

b. 1 

m. Feb. 13, 1649-50 i eF 27 
d. Oct. 28, 1719 f 
Aet. 98 J eB386 



Eleanor True was daughter of 

William True and Eleanor Stevens. 

Eleanor Stevens was daughter of 

Sergeant Benj. Stevens and Hannah Barnard. 

Hannah Barnard was daughter of 
Thomas Barnard and Eleanor . 



Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Diones Stevens. 



Elizabeth Carroll Pierce was daughter of 

Elbridge Gerry Pierce and Sarah Jane Gorham. 
Sarah Jane Gorham was daughter of 

Barney Gorham and Jane Johnson. 
Barney Gorham was son of 

Stephen Gorham and Sarah Freeman. 
Stephen Gorham was son of 

Josiah Gorham and Priscilla Sears. 
Josiah Gorham was son of 

Joseph Gorham and Sarah Sturgis. 
Joseph Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Desire Rowland. 
John Gorham was son of 

Ralph Gorham * and . 

Sarah Ereeman was daughter of 

John Freeman and Joanna Picket. 
John Freeman was son of 

John Freeman and Mercy Watson. 
John Freeman was son of 

John Freeman and Sarah Merrick. 
John Freeman was son of 

John Freeman and Mercy Prence. 



*N. E. Hist, and Gen'l Reg., X., 293, has: "Father of Ralph, 
who emigrated to New England, was James Gorham, of Benefield, 
born 1550, married Agnes Bennington 1572." 



rb. Jan. 2,1674-5 
d.AprU29,1768 
L (P 326) 

rb. Nov. 24, 1649 

(t50) 
[d. Feb. 27, 1711- 
[12 

rd. Little, 

' Nov. 27, 1694 

I (P 49J 



r d. + 1682 
L (eC) 



f b. Oct^lS, 1737 



(eF 91) 



fb. July 1, 1701 

I (eS 67) 



fd. Oct. 13,1688 
1 (g lii. 358) 



rb. 1685 

L CeF 35) 



'b. Aug. 1, 1654 



Id. Apr. 21, 1696 
(eF 36) 



230 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. ± 1675 ■) 

m. Sep. 19, 1700 ^eS 67 

d. May 7, 1760 J 



d. Jan. 13, 1697-8 J 



Buried Aug. 26, 
1676 



;b. ± 1593 
m. — 1624 

,d. 1687 



m. 1624 



Priscilla Sears was daughter of 
Joseph Sears and Hannah Hall. 

Joseph Sears was son of 

Silas Sears and Anna Bursell. 

Silas Sears was son of 

EicHAKD Seaes and Dorothy Thatcher. 

Desire Howland was daughter of 

John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. 



Mercy Prence was daughter of 

GovEENOR Thomas Peence and Mary Brewster. 



Elizabeth Tilley was daughter of 
John Tilley and . 



Mary Brewster was daughter of 
William Beewster (Mayflower). 



Descendants of Dole Wadley and Elizabeth 
Carroll Pierce descend also from 
William Brewster, 
John Tilley, 
Thomas Prence, 
John Howland, 
Richard Sears, 
John Freeman, 
Ralph Gorham, 
John Gorham, 
Thomas Barnard, twice; 
Edmund Greenleaf, twice; 
Stephen Greenleaf, 
Tristram Coffin, 
Richard Swain, 
Edward Colcord. 



rb. ± 1680 

(eS 67) 
Id July 28, 1753 



rd. Mar. 4, 1725-6 

L (eS 48) 



f Buried March 

i 19, 1678-79 
( eS 32) 



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CHAPTER XXXIV. 



FAMILY OF COFFIN COLKET. 



Tristram Coffin Colcord was born in Epping, New 
Hampshire, October 15th, 1809, and died in Philadel- 
phia, April 5th, 1883. He was the first of his name in 
Philadelphia, coming here about 1830. He was asso- 
ciated with many corporations during his life, and at 
the time of his death was President of the Philadelphia 
City Passenger Railway Company, the Philadelphia, 
Germantown and Norristown Railroad Company and 
the Chestnut Hill Railroad Company. 

After coming to Philadelphia he dropped the name 
of Tristram and spelled his surname Colket, conforming 
to the usual pronunciation. 

He was therefore known in Philadelphia business cir- 
cles as Coffin Colket. He married, March 21, 1839, 
Mary Pennypacker Walker, b. in Chester County, Pa., 
Sept. 3, 1819. He left four sons and three daughters. 
His widow died ISTovember 15, 1889. 



b. Mar. 7, 1758 
d. Jan. 15, 1836 



wmarket ~) 
pro ved V 
i. 16, 1797 ) 



b. Newmarket 
Will 
Jan. 



b. Hampton, ") 
Mar. 4, 1683-4 > 

Settled at New- j 
market 



b. ± 1655 at 
Hampton 

d. Oct. 5, 1736 
Kingston 



,}* 



Coffin Colket was son of 

Peter Colcord and Phebe Hamilton. 
Peter Colcord was son of 

Edward Colcord and Jane Coffin. 
Edward Colcord was son of 

Jonathan Colcord. 
Jonathan Colcord was son of 

Samuel Colcord and Mary Ayer. 
Samuel Colcord was son of 

Edward Colcord and Ann . 

Phebe Hamilton was daughter of 

James Hamilton and Phoebe Broughton, of 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 



-b. 1760 

:d. July8, 1857 



fb. Dover, 

L Mar. 11, 1721-2 



["d. Kingston, 
N. H., May 

L 29, 1739 



232 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 1691 ■) 

m. Nov. 18, 1719 

d. Dover, J 

June 21, 1761 

b. Jan. 18, 1665 ") 

m. i 1685 

d. Jan. 23, 1717 J 

b. 1631 in Eng- 
land 
America, 1642 
d. Exeter, N.H. 
March 21, 1715 
b. 1606 

America, 1642 

d. Nantucket, 

Oct. 2, 1681 



>gx 



g XXIV. 

150 
ai. 3 



b. i 1617 
d. Feb. 



617 -| 

i. 10, 1681-2 1 



b. ± 1604 
d. 12. 4, 1690 



!-a i. • 



Jane Coffin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin * and Jane Heard, 
Tristram Coffin * was son of 

Tristram Coffin ^ and Deborah Colcord. 
Tristram Coffin ^ was son of 

Peter Coffin ^ and Abigail Starhuch. 
Peter Coffin ^ was son of 

Teistkam Coffin ^ and Dionis Stevens. 



Deborah Colcord was daughter of 
Edward Colcord and Ann 



Abigail Starbuck was daughter of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 



Edward Colcord ^ from England arrived at Piscata- 
quay River, 1631 (Prov. Papers, N. H., 1, 110); Exeter, 
1638; Dover, 1640; Hampton, 1644; died at Hampton, 
February 10th, 1681-2. 

Descendants from Coffin Colket descend also from : 
Tristram Coffin, 
Peter Coffin, 
Edward Starbuck, 
Edward Colcord (twice). 

Samuel Colcord, son of Edward Colcord and 

Ann , was Representative, 1682 (Savage, I., 424); 

Grantee of Kingston (State Papers, New Hampshire, 
II., 131). 

Mary Ayer (wife of Samuel Colcord, of Kingston, 
N. H.) was daughter of Thomas Ayer, of Haverhill. 
The authority given for this is " Essex Registry of 
Deeds," Book 51, leaf 204, in which Mary Colcord and 
her husband, Samuel Colcord, convey land of her 
father, Thomas Ayer, of Haverhill, in 1725. 



b. June 18, 1699 



I b. Maya, 



fd. -t-1682 



1664 



{.. 



(eC) 



June 24, 1689 



Family of Coffin CoTket. 233 

The " Essex Antiquarian " (May number, 1900) 
gives wife of Samuel Colcord as Mary, daughter of 
Thomas and Elizabeth (ITutchins) Ayer. 

Elizabeth Hutchins was a daughter of John and 
Prances Hutchins, of Newbury. (Family Papers.) 

'' History of N'ewbury " gives Elizabeth among chil- 
dren of John and Frances Hutchins. 

Frances was once presented at court for wearing a 
silk hood, but was discharged " upon testimony of her 
being brought up above the ordinary ranker" (" History 
of Newbury," page 58.) The law permitted those only 
who were worth two hundred pounds to wear " a silk 
hood and scarfe." This was probably intended to ac- 
complish the same end as the rule laid down by the 
Quakers that Friends shall " be careful to live within 
the bounds of their circumstances." 

John Hutchins died February 6th, 1685-6; his 
widow, Frances, April 5th, 1694. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 



The blood of more than one of the pioneers of !N"an- 
tucket flowed in the veins of the poet Whittier. 

The descent from Christopher Hussey, which was a 
tradition of the Whittier family, and was believed by 
the poet himself, appears upon late investigation to be 
without foundation. 

His ancestry has been traced to Richard Hussey, who 
possibly was a descendant of Christopher, but this is not 
probable. Thomas Whittier, the progenitor of the 
Whittier family, came from Wiltshire, England, in 
1638, settled at l^ewbury, afterwards removed to Salis- 
bury, thence to Haverhill. He married Ruth Green, 
a relative of John Rolfe, who was associated with the 
proprietors of ISTantucket, and with Thomas Whittier 
came to America in the ship Confidence. 

Henry Rolfe, brother of John, in his will, dated 
" 15th 12th 1642," gave his "kinsman Thomas Whit- 
tier a swarme of bees." 



b. Dec. 17, 1807 -^ 
d. Sept. 7, 1892 J 
b. Nov. 22, 1760) 
m. Oct. 3, 1804 V 
d. June 11, 1830j 

b. Mar. 31, 1716 ) 
m. July 12, 1739 }■ 
d. Oct. 10, 1796 J 



b. May 8, 1669 1 
m. May 24, 1694 
d. Dec. 25, 1739 J 



d. in Haverhill 
Nov. 28, 1696 



■} 



John Greenleaf Whittier was son of 

John Whittier and Abigail Hussey. 
John Whittier was son of 

Joseph Whittier, 2d, and Sarah Greenleaf. 
Joseph Whittier, 2d, was son of 

Joseph Whittier and Mary Peaslee. 
Joseph Whittier was son of 

Thomas Whittier and Ruth Green. 



Note. — The above facts concerning Mr. Whittier's ancestry are 
taken from a careful compilation of original records, verified by 
wills and deeds, the result of several years of extended research 
by Charles C. Whittier, Boston, Mass. 



Join Greenleaf WMttier. 



235 



lec. 12, 1742 ■) 
May 3, 1769 }■ 
.prill7,1814j 



une 23, 1699 
il737 
feb. 8, 1712 



(in Eng., 
lOver, N. H, 
tl733 



■} 



Ian. 25, 1691-2 
June 7, 1714 



Feb. 11, 1667-8 -) 
Nov. 12, 1689 V 
Sept, 13, 1740 ; 



± 1628 1 

. Nov. 13, 1651 
Oct. 31, 1690 . 



il590 
1670-1 



March 28, 1' 
I. -i- 1740 
. Dec. 7, 1768 



708 I 



. June 4, 1682 ~) 
1. April 6, 1704 \- 
. ± Dec, 1750 ) 



1. ± 1681 

. Feb. 27, 1696-7 J 



C. 18, 1664 -) 

i5 y 

g. 31, 1725 ) 



X AUK. 18, 1664 ■ 
m. 1685 
a. Aug. 



b. 1632 ) 

m. Mar. 2, 1653 V 
d. Feb. 4, 1704 ) 



Abigail Hussey was daughter of 

Samuel Hussey and Mercy Evans. 
Samuel Hussey was son of 

Joseph Hussey and Elizabeth (Robmson) 

(Tibbetts ^). 
Joseph Hussey was son of 

EicHAED Hussey and Jane • 

Sarah Greenleaf was daughter of 

Nathaniel Greenleaf and Judith Coffin. 
Nathaniel Greenleaf was son of 

Tristram Greenleaf and Margaret Piper. 
Tristram Greenleaf was son of 

Stephen Gkeenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin. 
Stephen Greenleaf was son of 

Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole. 

Mercy Evans was daughter of 

Joseph Evans and Elizabeth Hanson. 

Joseph Evans Avas son of 

Joseph Evans and Mercy Home. 

Joseph Evans was son of w-rr i 

RoBEET Evans f and Ann (Thompson) (Hodg- 
don) (as second wife). 



m. 1630 
d. 1681 



I g xxiv, 
f 150 
J ai. 3 



d. Jan. 25, 1828 



rb. July 30, 1712 
\d. Mays, 1773 



fb. Feb. 23, 1693 
Id. Dec. 17,1769 



b. June 16, 1668 



fb. in Eng., 1634 
1 d. Nov. 19, 1678 



r d. Jan. 18, 
1662-63 



{"■ 



Sept. 12, 1707 



jb. ± 1680 

fd. - May 30, 
1 1727 



Judith Coffin was daughter of 

Stephen Coffin and Sarah Atkinson. 

Stephen Coffin was son of ,. , ,^ . ,. 

Tkistkam Coeein, Je., and Judith {Greenleaf) 

(Somerby). 
Tristram Coffin, Jr., was son of 

Teistram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

(Eoberts) Robinson. 

tKobert Evans's first wife was Elizabeth Colcord, daughter of 
Edward and Ann Colcord, of Hampton. 



336 



Early Seitlers of Nantucket. 



b.l590 

d. Mar. 24, 1670- 



J 



Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 

Tkisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Judith (Greenleaf) (Somerby) was daughter of 
Edmund Gkeeni-eaf and Sarah Dole. 



John Greenleaf Whittier descended from: 
Thomas Whittier, 
Eichard Hussey, 
Stephen Greenleaf, 
Edmund Greenleaf (twice), 
Tristram Coffin (twice), 
Tristram Coffin, Jr., 
Robert Evans. 



Note. — Mary Peaslee, who married Joseph Whittier, was born 
in Amesbury, July 14th, 1672. She was daughter of Joseph Peas- 
lee and Ruth Barnard. Euth Barnard, who was daughter ot 
Thomas and Eleanor Barnard, was born October 16th, 1651, and 
married January 21st, 1671-2. 

This connection gives Whittier another ancestor among the 
original proprietors of Nantucket. 



d. Jan. 18, 1^62-3 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 

THE NATHAN BUNKEK FAMILY. 

This family was of Huguenot origin. The name for- 
merly was Bon Coeur. 

George Bunker, son of William, was drowned May 
26th, 1658, at Topsfield, Mass., leaving a widow, Jane 
Godfrey Bunker, and several children. She married 
Eichard Swain, and they removed to JSTantucket, where 
have lived many Bunker descendants. 

I^athan Bunker ' of the prominent shipping firm of 
Lea & Bunker, who owned a large amount of shipping 
in Philadelphia at the beginning of the nineteenth cen- 
tury, was married, 1812, after the manner of Friends, 
to Elizabeth Thorne Clement, associating this branch 
with many families of Long Island, JSTew Jersey and 
Pennsylvania. 

The JSTathan Bunker line here given is accepted by 
many of the family. A question was raised concern- 
ing JSTathan Bunker's ^ father, Nathan Bunker, and a 
theory advanced that ISTathan ^ was son of AVilliam, but 
search in the Bunker MS. at Nantucket has disproved 
this, as by it one son only is attributed to William Bun- 
ker, and he died unmarried. 

The children of Nathan Bunker and Elizabeth 
Thorne Clement were : 

Hannah C. Bunker, who married James W. Paul, of 
Philadelphia, and three sisters, who married respec- 
tively Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, Amos Taylor and Hon. 
S. Abbott Lawrence, of Boston. 



238 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 11. 8, 17 



Id 11 



b. Oct. 9, 17.310 S~) a i. 67 
m. 12. 7, 1750 O S ^c i. 191 



d. 8. 14, 1757 



b. Feb. 25, 1675 Ifi. 299 



b. 1648 

m. Apr. 11, 1669 

d. June 6, 1712 j 



r 

lh67 



d. May 26, 1658 >fi. 299 



b. 9. 12, 1707 -) i 108; 

m. 12. 1,1726-7 08^ 168 
d. 1743 ) d 177 



b. 9. 22, 1677 
m. 10. 15, 1706 
d. 8 mo. 1756 



b. 3. 20, 1636 
m. 1659 
d. 5. 1, 1727 



d. 7. 25, 1650 



OS^ : 
id: 

jbAi^ 

}' 
}■ 



27, 28 
>il87 



b. Oct. 21, 1667 1 f ii. 282 



m. 1695-6 



Baptized 

Jan. 28, 1621 
m. 1643 

d. Feb. 5, 1676 
b. 1575 

d. rt 1643 
b. 1550 
m. 1572 
d. 1576 



1426 
f ii. 282 
il07 



g iii. 86; 

f ii. 281 

f ii. 281 

1407 



}., 



b. Aug. 12, 1640 1 g xxiv. 
m. 1663, Nov. I 151 ; 
or Dec. 3 f oK 32 

d. July 28, 1720 J 



Nathan Bunker^ married, 1812, Elizabetk 
Thorne Clement. 

Nathan Bunker " was son of 

Nathan Bunker ^ and Hepzibeth Pinkham. 
Nathan Bunker ^ was son of 

Shubael Bunker and Lydia Paddach. 
Shubael Bunker was son of 

Zecariah Bunker and Desire Gorham. 
Zecariah Bunker was son of 

Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin. 
Jonathan Bunker was son of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 
William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 
George Bunker was son of 

William Bunker. 

Lydia Paddack was daughter of 

Daniel Paddack and Susanna Oorham. 
Daniel Paddack was son of 

Nathaniel Paddack and Ann Bunker. 
Nathaniel Paddack was son of 

Zachariah Paddack and Deborah Sears. 
Zachariah Paddack was son of 

Robert Paddack and Mary . 

Desire Gorham was daughter of 

Shubael Gorham and Puella Hussey. 

Shubael Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Desire Rowland. 

John Gorham was son of 

Ralph Gorham, who was son of 

James Gorham and Agnes Bennington. 

Elizabeth Coffin was daughter of 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. 



rb. 2. 18, 1732 
I (d 178) 



fb. 10. 9, 1726 

t, (i 107) 



f d. Mar. 30, 1769 
■(. (g xxiv. 151) 



(h. Dec. 4, 1648 
-^ d. 1729 
1 (b 67) 



'd. Jane Swain, 
Oct. 31, 1662 

I (a i. 1) 



rb. 10. 8, 1705 
^ (i 108 ; 188) 
U. 7. 13,1777 
(d 177) 

(h. 9. 3, 1686 
X a. 1. 18, 1767 
I (i 188) 



rd. 8. 17,1732 
I (i 187) 



d. 16.50 
(i 187) 



rb. 10. 21, 1677 
J. d. 1748 
I (a 1. 3) 



fb. i 1623 
d. 10. 13, 1683 
I (i 137) 



"b. Aug. 5, 1645 
L (eK 32) 



The Nathan Bunker Family. 



239 



b. ± 1605 
m. dt 1630 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



d. 4. 19, 1682 



}g xxiv 
150 
ib.;ai. 



b. 1683 ") i 108 
m. Dec. 25, 1703 )-a iii. 12 



Jil08 



b. 2. 20, 1652 

m. 

d. 11. 11, 1716 



b. 1. 16, 1621 
m. 1643 
d. 2. 5. 1676 



Ifii. : 



b. 1590 
m. 1632 
d. 1676 



b. 1632 

m. 10. 8, 1676 

d. 4. 2, 1718 



b. 1599 ~) Eng. Parish 
m. > Records 

d. 3. 6, lesej s 



b. 1621 
m. 1652 
d. 1. 16, 1684 



b. 1592 
m. ± 1622 
d. 2. 23, 1673 



y 



James Coffin was son of 

Teisteam Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Susanna Gorham was daughter of 

Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth Gardner. 
Stephen Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Mary Otis. 
John Gorham was son of 

John Gorham and Desire Howland. 
John Gorham was son of 

Ralph Gorham, who was son of 
James Gorham and Agnes Bennington. 

Ann Bunker was daughter of 

William Bunker and Mary Macy. 
William Bunker was son of 

George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 
George Bunker was son of 

William Bunker. 

Deborah Sears was daughter of 

Richard Sears and Dorothy Thatcher. 

Puella Hussey was daughter of 

Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Stephen Hussey was son of 

Christopher Hussey and Theodate Bachelor. 

Mary Otis was daughter of 
John Otis and Mary Jacobs. 

Desire Howland was daughter of 

John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. 



rd. + 1682 
L (eC) 



fb. 1612 
d. 1706 

L (li 67) 



rb. 3. 14, 16.54 
d. 4. 1, 1732 

I (g) 



rd. 1680 

L (eSrl32) 



rb. 1656 

{ d. 9. 21, 1744 

( (s 11. 761) 



d. 10 mo., 1649 



d. + 1683 



rb. 1607 

Ld. 12. 21,1687 



240 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



b. 5. 19, 1664 
d. 6. 1, 1723 



b. i 1626 

m. 1652 

d. 1. 23, 1688 



b. 1608 

m. 9. 6, 1639 

d. 4. 19, 1682 



b. ± 1634 
m. 1662 
d. 6. 6, 1719 

b. 1605 
d. 1690 



b. =t 1605 
d. Oct. 2, 1681 



}.,. 



:-fii. 230 



Jai. 4 



Uc56 
j a i. 11 



Jai. 4 



i a i.3 



Elizabeth Gardner was daughter of 
James Gardner and Mary Starhuck. 

James Gardner was son of 

RiCHAED Gardner and Sarah Shattuch. 

Richard Gardner was son of 

Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Mary Macy was daughter of 

Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 

Martha Bunker was daughter of 
George Bunker and Jane Godfrey. 

George Bunker was son of 
William Bunker. 

Theodate Bachelor was daughter of 
Rev. Stephen Bachelor. 

Elizabeth Tilley was daughter of 
John Tilley. 

Mary Starbuck was daughter of 

Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin. 

Nathaniel Starbuck was son of 

Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Sarah Shattuck was daughter of 
Shattuck and Damaris . 



Mary CoflEin was daughter of 

Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens. 



f b. 3. 30, 1663 
I d. 1696 



rb. 1632 
Ld. 1724 



rb. 1612 
d. 1706 

I (h 67) 



Descendants of Nathan Bunker and Elizabeth Thome 
Clement descend also on the paternal side from: 
William Bunker (three times), 
Robert Paddack, 



rb. Feb. 20, 1645 
(g xxiv. 150) 
Id. 9. 13, 1717 
(a 1. 11) 



("Died Damaris 
t Gardner 



The Nathan Bunker Family. 



241 



b. 1757 
,in. 1778 



ib. 1720 
. 1740 



r 



b. 1678 
m. 1705 



b. 

m, 1669 
d. 1724 



b. 1733 
m. 1754 
d. 1823 



Zachariah Paddack, 
John Gorham (twice), 
Kalph Gorham (twice), 
Tristram Coffin (twice), 
Thomas Macy (twice), 
Eichard Sears, 
Christopher Hussey, 
Stephen Hussey, 
John Otis (twice), 
John Howland (twice), 
Thomas Gardiner, 
Eichard Gardner, 
Eev. Stephen Bachelor, 
John Tilley (twice), 
Edward Starbuck. 



Elizabeth Thome Clement was daughter of 

James Clement and Mary Thome. 
James Clement was son of 

Jacob Clement and Elizabeth Tilly. 
Jacob Clement * was son of 

Jacob Clement and Ann Harrison. 
Jacob Clement was son of 

James Clement and Jane . 

James Clement was son of 

Gregory Clement. 



Mary Thome was daughter of 

Captain Joseph Thorne and Elizabeth Cheese- 
man. 
Captain Joseph Thorne was son of 

Thomas Thorne and Letitia Hinchman. 



fb. 1757 
I. d. 1818 



(■Widow daa 
J Nathl. 
( Cooper 



* Jacob Clement settled at Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1743. His 
father settled at Flushing, Long Island, in 1640. Gregory Clem- 
ent, father of James, was M. P. for Camelsford and one of the 
Judges of Charles I. in 1648. 



242 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Thomas Thorne was son of 

Joseph Thorne, of Flushing, Long Island. 

Letitia Hinchman was daughter of 
John Hinchman and Sarah Harrison. 

John Hinchman was among the early settlers of 
Flushing, L. I. The earliest mention of him is in the 
valuation of estates in 1675. Joseph Thorne also set- 
tled at Flushing. Two sons of Joseph Thorne, Thomas 
and John, married Letitia and Ann, daughters of John 
Hinchman. 

John Hinchman and the Thorne family removed to 
Kew Jersey late in the seventeenth century. 



APPENDIX L 



APPENDIX I. 



Adams, Alexander, m. Mary Coffin.* (Savage, vol. i., p. 8, 1652.) 

Barnard,2 Nathaniel, Sr., son of Thomas Barnard and Eleanor 

( ), m. Mary Barnard, dau. Robert Barnard and Joanna 

(Harvey). (W. C. Folger MS.) 

Barnard,3 Nathaniel, Jr.,f d. Feb. 28, 1718, son of Nathaniel 
Barnard, Sr., m. 1st, in 1702, Elizabeth (Coffin), widow of Peter 
Coffin, Jr., and dau. Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary (Coffin) (Nan- 
tucket Probate Records) ; 2d, Dorcas Manning, dau. Dennis Man- 
ning (Nantucket Friends' Records), and 3d, "1st of 12th mo., 
called Feb.," 1709, Judith Folger, widow of Peter Folger, Jr., 
and daughter Stephen Coffin and Mary (Bunker) (Friends' Mar- 
riages, Book I., p. 2). 

Barnard, Judith, widow of Nathaniel Barnard, Jr., m. 1722, Ste- 
phen Wilcox. (Friends' Records, Book I., p. 24.) Judith Barnard 
died Dec. 28, 1760. 

Child of Nathaniel Barnabd, Jr., and Dorcas (Manning). 

Barnard,* Dorcas, 6. Oct. 9, 1707, m. 1726, " 8th day of 7th Mo., 
O. S.," Jacob Barney, 6. Feb. 2, 1705. (Town Records, Book I., 
p. 34.) 

Children of Nathaniel Barnard, Jr., and Judith (Coffin) 
(Folger) Barnard. 

Barnard,* Elizabeth, d. Nov. 15, 1729. 
Barnard,* Peter, d. Apr. 27, 1775. 
Barnard,* Eunice, d. Sept. 19, 1727. 

* Mary (Coffin) Adams was a sister of Tristram Coffin, Sr. 
Benjamin Franklin Folger, genealogist, says she had four chil- 
dren, and from them descended the illustrious family of that 
name in Massachusetts. 

t Nathaniel Barnard, Jr., d. Feb. 28, 1718. His estate was not 
settled until 1728-29. 



246 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Barnard,* Nathaniel, d. 1743, m. Hepzibah Hussey, dau. Syl- 
vanus Hussey. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Barney, Benjamin, son Jonathan and Sarah Barney, Rhode 
Island, m. 1st, Lydia Starbuck, dau. Jethro and Dorcas Starbuck. 
(Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 23, 1722) ; 2d, Huldab 
Bunker, widow Simeon and dau. Bachelor Hussey (Ibid., p. 221). 

Barney, Benjamin, son Benjamin and Lydia Barney, m. Jemima 
Jenkins, dau. Peter and Abigail Jenkins. (Ibid., p. 217, 1753.) 

Barney, Jonathan, to. Abial Coffin, dau. Barnabas Coffin. (W. 
C. Folger MSS.) 

Barney, Jacob, of Newport, m. Dorcas Barnard, dau. Nathaniel 
and Dorcas Barnard. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 34, 
1726.) 

Barney, Phebe, dau. Benjamin and Huldah (Bunker) Barney, 
m. Joseph Swain. (W. C. Folger MSS., Barney Family.) 

Barker, Isaac, m. Judith Prence, dau. Gov. Thomas Prence. 
(Winsor's History of Duxbury, 1665.) 

Barker, Samuel, son Isaac and Judith Barker, m. 2d Bethiah 
Folger, dau. John and Mary (Barnard) Folger (Savage, vol. i., p. 
115, Jan. 21, 171S). 

Barker, Isaac, son Isaac and Judith (Prence) Barker, m. Eliza- 
beth Slocum, dau. Peleg Slocum and Mary Holder. (Family 
Records, 1707.) 

Barker Robert, son of Samuel and Bethiah (Folger) Barker, 
b. Feb. 23, 1722-3, d. April 26, 1780, m. February 16, 1744, 1st, Je- 
didah Chase, dau. James and Rachel (Brown) Chase, of Nantuck- 
et, 5. Feb. 15, 1723, d. Sept. 14, 1762 (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I., p. 49) ; 2d, April, 1763, Sarah Gardner, widow of Hezi- 
kiah Gardner and dau. of Abishai and Dinah (Starbuck) Folger, of 
Nantucket, 6. Oct. 16, 1739, d. Mar. 24, 1833 (W. C. Folger MSS. 
and Barker Newhall). 



Children of Robert Barker and First Wife, Jedidah 

(Chase.) 

Barker, Judith, h. Jan., 1745, m. Feb. 4, 1762, Shubael Gard- 
ner, son of Reuben and Theodate (Coffin) Gardner. (W. C. Fol- 
ger MSS.) 

Barker, Margaret, ft. May 29, 1747, m. 1st, Feb. 7, 1765, Paul, 
eon of George and Elizabeth Hussey, of Nantucket (Ibid.) ; 



Appendix. 247 

2d, Thomas, son of Thomas and Judith Jenkins, of Hudson, 
N. Y., 6. 1741. (Ibid., 1808.) 

Barker, Lydia, 6. Nov. 10, 1749, d. Sept. 8, 1833, m. Jan. 29, 
1767, Francis SAvain, son of Francis and Mary (Paddack) Swain 
(Nantucket Friends' Records). 

Barker, Mary, unm.. (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

Barker, Eobert, unm. (Ibid.) 

Barker, James, m. 1st, Feb. 2, 1786, Sarah, dau. of William and 
Hepzibah Coffin, of Saratoga; 2d, April 9, 1807, Lydia, dau. of 
Prince and Deborah Gardner. 

Barker, Francis, m. 1786, Deborah Bussell (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. IV., p. 120), dau. of Sylvanus and Anna Russell 
(Barker Newhall). 

Children of Robert Barker and Second Wife, Sarah 
Gardner. 

Barker, Jedidah, m. July 9, 1807, William Macy, son of William 
and Mary (Barney) Macy. (Macy Genealogy, p. 121.) 

Barker, Mary, m., 1st, Apr. 8, 1813, Walter Allen, of Smithfield, 
R. I. (W. C. Folger MSS.) ; 2d, Dec. 30, 1847, Moses Farnum, of 
Waterford, Mass. (Ibid.) 

Barker, Abraham, m. May 17, 1809, PrisciUa Hopkins, dau. of 
Gerard and Rachel (Wilson) Hopkins, of Baltimore. (Ibid.) and 
(Barker Newhall.) 

Barker, Sarah, m. Andrew Sigourney, of Boston. (Ibid.) 

Barker, Isaac, unm. 

Barker, Jacob, m. Aug. 27, 1801, Elizabeth Hazard, dau. of 
Thomas and Anna Rodman Hazard. (Genealogy of Rodman Fam- 
ily, No. 331, pp. 73, 74.) 

Children of Jacob Barker and Elizabeth Hazard.* 

Barker, Robert, died in infancy. 
Barker, Robert, unm. 
Barker, Thomas, unm. 

Barker, William Hazard, m. Nov. 14, 1832, Jeanette James, dau. 
of William and Catharine (Barber) James, of Albany, New York. 
Barker, Andrew Sigourney, unm. 

* Authority, Rodman Family and Barker Newhall. 



248 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Barker, Anna Hazard^ m. Oct. 3, 1840, Samuel G., son of 
Thomas W, and Lydia (Gray) Ward, of Boston. 

Barker, Elizabeth, m., 1st, Baldwin Brower, or Brewer; 2d, 
William T. A^an Zandt, son of Thomas and Mary (Underbill) Van 
Zandt, of New York; 3d, John Jacob, son of John and Ellen 
(Long) McCaulis. 

Barker, Sarah, m., 1st, John C. Harrison, of Baltimore; 2d, 
William G. Hunt, of New Orleans.* 

Barker, Abraham, m., 1st, June 3, 1842, Sarah Wharton, dau. 
of William and Deborah (Fisher) Wharton; 2d, June 28, 1871, 
Katharine, dau. of James and Phebe (Riggs) Crane. 

Barker, Mary, died young. 

Barker, John W., died young. 

Brown, John (Elder), m. Hannah Hobart, dau. Peter Hobart. 
(Savage, vol i., p. 271, 1658.) 

Brown, John, m. Rachel Gardner, dau. Capt. John Gardner, 
(Ibid., vol. ii., p. 288.) 

Brock, John, m. Merib Mitchell. (Nantucket To^vn Records, 
Bk. I., p. 148, 1800.) 

Buffum, David, Sr., m. Hepzibah Mitchell. (Family Records, 
1784.) 

Bunker, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Look, of Tisbury. (W. C. Folger, 
Bunker Family, p. 60, 1646.) 

Bunker,! W'illiam (French Huguenot). 

Bunker,2 George, m. Jane Godfrey. 

Bunker,3 William, son George Bunker and Jane (Godfrey), m. 
Mary Macy, dau. Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. (Nantucket 
Town Records, Bk. L, p. 1, 1669.) 

Bunker,4 Benjamin, m. Deborah Paddack, dau. Zachariah Pad- 
dack. 

Bunker,6 Thomas, m. Anna Swain, dau. Richard Swain. 

Bunker,6 Richard, m. Eunice Mitchell, ft. October 7, 1749, dau. 
of Richard Mitchell and Mary Starbuck. 



* Atty. Gen'l. of La., 1876; Secretary of Navy, 1881, and Min- 
ister to Russia, 1882, 



Appendix. 249 

Children of Richard Bunker and Eunice (Mitchell). 

Bunker,7 Anna, 6. 1769, d. 1769. 

Bunker, Abraham, b. 1770, d. 1770. 

Bunker, Lydia, ft. 1771, d. 1847. 

Bunker, Richard, ft. 1773, d. 1799. 

Bunker, Jethro, &. 1776, d. 1845. 

Bunker, Laban, 6. 1778, d. 1782. 

Bunker, Isaiah, b. 1781, d. 1801. 

Bunker, Laban, I). 1783, d. 1844, w. Deborah Macy. 

Bunker, David, 6. 1785, d. 1848, m. Derdanna Carpenter. 

Bunker, Eunice M., 6. 1788, d. 1834. 

Bunker, Nathan, m. Elizabeth Thome Clement. (Family Rec- 
ord, 1812.) 

Bunker, Nathan, m. Hepsibeth Pinkham (Ibid., 1781.) 

Bunker, Shubael, m. Lydia Paddack. (Ibid., 1751.) 

Bunker, Zachariah, m. Desire Gorham (by John Coffin, justice 
of peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 23, 1728.) 

Bunker, Jonathan, son William Bunker, m. Elizabeth Coffin. 
(Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 56.) 

Bunker, George, son William Bunker, m. Deborah Coffin. 
(Town Records.) 

Bunker, Ann, dau. George Bunker and Jane (Godfrey), m. 
Joseph Coleman. (Family Papers.) 

Butler, William, in. Eunice Coffin.* (Savage, vol. i., p. 8.) 

Butler, William, m. Mary Jenkins (by Josiah Coffin, justice of 
peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 56, 1747.) 

Cartwright,! Edward, St., m., 1st, ; 2d, Elizabeth 

Trott. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 



Child of Edward Cartwright and First Wife. 

Cartwright,2 Nicholas, d. 1706, m. Orange Rogers, dau. William 
Rogers and Martha Barnard, dau. Robert Barnard. (Ibid.) 



* Eunice Coffin was sister of Tristram Coffin, Sr. 



250 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Edward Cart\vki(;ht and Second Wife, Eliza- 
beth Trott. 

Cartwright,2 Sampson, 6. 1697, m. Bethia Pratt, dau. Joseph 
Pratt and Dorcas Folger (Ibid.). 

Cartwright,2 Susanna, b. 1680, m. WiUiam Stratton. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,2 Edward, ft. 1683, m. Ruth West, dau. Dr. Thomas 
West, of Martha's Vineyard. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,2 Mary, unm., d. 1719. (Ibid.) 

Children of Nicholas Carxwright and Orange Rogers. 

Cartwright,3 Sarah, ft. 1695, m. George Brown. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,3 Eleanor, ft. 1697, m. . (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,3 Hope, b. 1699, m. Thomas Crook. (Ibid.) 
Cartwright,3 Lydia, ft. 1701, m. John Deskau. (Ibid.) 
Cartwright,3 Nicholas, Jr., &. 1705. (Ibid.) 

Children of Sampson Cartwright and Bethia Pratt. 

CartAvright,3 Alice, b. 1702, m. David Gwin, of Salem. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,3 Hezidiah, b. 1707, m. March 7, 1731, Abigail Brown, 
dau. Dr. Joseph Brown and Tabitha Frost, widow of John Frost 
and dau. John Trott (by John Coffin, justice of peace). (Ibid.) 

Cartwright ,3 Dorcas, died young. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,3 Phineas, died young. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright ,3 Thomas, died young. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,3 Mary, died young. (Ibid.) 

Children of Edward Cartwright and Ruth West. 

Cartwright,3 Bryant, m. Oct., 1732, Elizabeth Weeks. (Ibid.) 
Cartwright,3 Edward, m. Jan. 1, 1749, Jane Magee. (Ibid.) 
Cartwright,3 Silas. (Ibid.) 

CartwTight,3 Samuel, ft. 1716, m. Anna Swain, dau. John (Eng- 
land). (Ibid.) 



Note. — Orange Cartwright, widow of Nicholas, was married 
on the 18th of March, 1708, to Morris Farris, and some time 
after removed to Cape Cod. (Ibid.) 



Appendix. 251 

Chilpeen of Hezidiah Cartwkight and Abigail Bkown, 

Cart\vright,4 Priseilla, 6. 1733, d. 1810, mm. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,* James, ft. 1735, d. 1822, m., 1st, Ruth Gardner, 
dau. Uriah Gardner (no children) (Ibid.) ; 2d, Love Maey, dau. 
I'raneis Maey and Judith Coffin (Records of Friends, Nantucket, 
1759.) 

Cartwright,4 Rachel, h. 1737, d. 1776, m. Jabez Maey, Jr., son 
of Jabez Maey and Sarah Starbuck. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Ca^t^\Tight,* Mary, 6. 1737, d. 1819, w. First month, 1759, 
Ebenezer Coffin, son Alexander. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,* Abigail, ft. 1741, d. 1826, m. Barnabas Gardner, 
son Jonathan Gardner and Patience. (Ibid.) 

Cart-\\Tight,4 Joseph, b. 1743, unm. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,* Jonathan, ft. 1745, d. 1789, m. Deborah Maey, dau. 
Robert Maey and Abigail Barnard. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,* Thomas, ft. 1746, d. unm. at sea. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,4 Benjamin, 6. 1748, d. 1812, m., 1st, Elizabeth 

Bunker, dau. David Bunker and ; 2d, Abigail Paddack, dau. 

Jonathan Paddack and — — . (Ibid.) 

CartA\Tight,i Bethiah, &. 1750, d. 1793, m. Mar. 3, 1768, John 
Maey, son Robert Maey and Abigail Barnard. (Ibid.) 

CartwTight,* John, ft. 1752, d. 1837, m. Nov. 16, 1776, Mary Star- 
buck, dau. Edward Starbuck and Damaris . (Ibid.) 

Cart\vright,4 Elihu, ft. 1754. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,4 William, ft. 1755, d. 1813 at sea, unm. (Ibid.) 

Cartwright,4 Seth, ft. 1760, d. 1811, m. in Virginia, Polly . 

(Ibid.) 

Coffin, Tristram, Sr.,* m. Dionis Stevens. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg., vol. xxiv., p. 150, 1630.) 

Childben of Tristram Coffin, Sr., and Dionis Stevens. 

Coffin, Peter, m. Abigail Starbuck, dau. of Edward Starbuck 
and Katharine Reynolds. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xxiv., 
p. 150.) 

Coffin, Tristram, Jr., m. Judith Somerby (widow Henry), dau. 
Edmund Greenleaf. (Ibid., p. 151, 1652.) 



* Benjamin Franklin Folger, genealogist, says, " It is worthy of 
note at that period, that neither Tristram Coffin nor any of his 
children married a second time." 



252 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Coffin, Elizabeth, m. Stephen Greenleaf. (Ibid., p. 150, 1651.) 
Coffin, James, m. Mary Severance, dau. of John Severance, of 

Salisbury, Massachusetts. (Ibid., p. 151, 1663.) 

Coffin, Mary, m, Nathaniel Starbuck. (Ibid., p. 150, 1662.) 
Coffin, John (I^ieutenant), m. Deborah Austin, dau. of Joseph 

Austin and Sarah Starbuck. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. 

xxiv., pp. 151, 152, 1668.) 
Coffin, Stephen, m. Mary Bunker, dau. of George Bunker and 

Jane Godfrey. (Ibid., p. 152.) 



Children of Peter Coffin and Abigail Starbuck. 

Coffin, Abigail, m. Daniel Davidson, of Ipswich. (Ibid., p. 150, 
1673.) 

Coffin, Peter, m. Elizabeth Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel and Mary 
Starbuck. (Ibid., p. 152, 1682.) 

Coffin, Jethro, m. Mary Gardner, dau. John Gardner. (Ibid., 
pp. 152, 153.) 

Coffin, Tristram, m. Deborah Colcord. (Ibid., p. 152.) 

Coffin, Robert, m. Joanna Dyer (widow), dau. Hon. John Gil- 
man, of Exeter. (Ibid., p. 150.) 

Coffin, Edward, m. Anna Gardner, dau. Capt. John and Priscil- 
la Gardner. (Ibid., p. 150.) 

Coffin, Elizabeth, //;. Col. John Gilman, of Exeter. (Ibid., p. 
151, 1698.) 



Children of Tristram Coffin^ Jr., and Judith Somerby. 

Coffin, Judith, m. John Sanborn, of Hampton, New Hampshire. 
(Ibid., p. 151, 1674.) 

Coffin, Deborah, m. Joseph Knight. (Ibid., 1677.) 

Coffin, Mary. m. Joseph Little, son of George Little and Alice 
(Poor). (Ibid., 1677.) 

Coffin, James, m. Florence Hooke. (Ibid., p. 153, 1685.) 

Coffin, John, unm. (Ibid., p. 151.) 

Coffin, Lydia, m., 1st, Moses Little, son of George Little and 
Alice (Poor) (Ibid., p. 151) ; 2d, John Pike (Ibid., p. 151, 1695.) 

Coffin, Enoch, unm. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Stephen, m. Sarah Atkinson. (Ibid., p. 153, 1685.) 

Coffin, Peter, m. Apphia Dole, dau. Richard Dole. (Ibid., p. 154.) 



Appendix. 253 

Coffin, Hon. Nathaniel,* m. March 29, 1693, Sarah, widow ot 
Henry Dole and dau. Captain Samuel Brocklebank and Hannah 
( ). (Ibid., p. 154.) 



Children of James Coffin and Maky Severance. 

Coffin, Mary, m. 1st, Richard Pinkham, of Portsmouth (came 
from Isle of Wight), (Ibid., p. 151) ; 2d, James Gardner, son Rich- 
ard and Sarah Gardner (Ibid.). 

Coffin, James, Jr., m. 1st, Love Gardner, dau. Richard and 
Sarah; 2d, Ruth Gardner, dau. John and Priscilla Gardner (Ibid., 
p. 154, 1692). 

Coffin, Nathaniel, m. Damaris Gayer, dau. William and Dorcas 
Gayer. (Town Records of Nantucket, Bk. I., p. 5, 1692.) 

Coffin, John, m. Hope Gardner, dau. Richard and Sarah Gard- 
ner. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xxiv., p. 306.) 

Coffin, Dinah, m. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr. (Ibid., p. 151, 1690.) 

Coffin, Deborah, m. George Bunker, son William and Mary 
Bunker. (Ibid., p. 151, 1695.) 

Coffin, Ebenezer, m. Eleanor Barnard, dau. Nathaniel Barnard. 
(Ibid., p. 306, 1700.) 

Coffin, Joseph, m. Bethiah Macy, dau. John Macy. (Ibid, 
p. 306, 1719.) 

Coffin, Benjamin, Mwm. (Ibid., p. 151.) 

Coffin, Ruth, m. Joseph Gardner, son Richard Gardner.2 (Ibid., 
p. 151.) 

Coffin, Abigail, m. Nathaniel Gardner. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Experience, unm. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Jonathan, m. Hepzibah Harker, dau. Ebenezer Harker. 
(Ibid., p. 307.) 

Coffin, Elizabeth, m. 1st, Jonathan Bunker, son William and 
Mary Bunker (Ibid.) ; 2d, Thomas Clark (Ibid., p. 151.) 



* In Joshua Coffin's History of Newbury, p. 337, is the follow- 
ing, copied from Hon. Nathaniel Coffin's note-book: 

" 1731. An account of some things my son Edmund had of me. 
Paid for his learning and his books and his medicine, £70." 



254 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Lieutenant John Coffin and Deborah Austin. 

CofBn, Lydia, m. 1st, John Logan; 2d, John Draper; 3d, 
Thomas Thaxter, of Hingham. (Ibid., p. 152.) 

Coffin, Peter, m. 1st, Christian Condy (Ibid., p. 307) ; 2d, Hope, 
dau. Joseph and Bethiah (Macy) Gardner (Ibid.). 

Coffin, Enoch, m. Beulah Eddy. (Ibid., p. 307, 1700.) 

Coffin, Samuel, m. Miriam Gardner, dau. Richard Gardner, Jr. 
(Ibid., p. 308, 1705.) 

Coffin, Hannah, m. Benjamin Gardner, son Eichard Gardner, Jr. 
(Ibid., p. 152.) 

Coffin, Tristram, m. Mary Bunker, dau. William Bunker. 
(Ibid., p. 308, 1714.) 

Coffin, Deborah, m. Thomas Macy,3 son John Macy. (Ibid., 
p. 152, 1708.) 



Children of Stephen Coffin and Mary Bunker. 

Coffin, Dinah, m. Jacob Norton. (Ibid., p. 1.52.) 

Coffin, Peter, m. , in Boston. (Ibid.) 

Coffin, Stephen, Jr., m. Experience Look, dau. Thomas Look. 
(Nantucket Tovm Pvecords, Bk. I., p. 8, 1693.) 

Coffin, Judith, m. 1st, Peter Folgers (d. 1707), son Eleazer Fol- 
ger (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xxiv., p. 152) ; 2d, Nathaniel 
Barnard, son Nathaniel Barnard (Ibid., p. 152) ; 3d, Stephen Wil- 
cox (Ibid., p. 152, 1722). 

CoffiLn, Susanna, m. Peleg Bunker, son William Bunker. (Ibid., 
p. 152.) 

Coffin, Mehitable, m. Armstrong Smith. (Ibid., p. 152.) 
Coffin, Anna, m. Solomon Gardner, son Richard Gardner, Jr. 
(Ibid., p. 152.) 
Coffin, Hepzibah, m. Samuel Gardner. (Ibid., p. 152.) 
Coffin, Paul, m. Mary Allen, dau. Edward Allen, 1729. (Allen 
Coffin, LL.B., p. 58.) 

Coffin, Richard, m. Ruth Bunker. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 

vol. xxiv., p. 306.) 

Coffin, Ebenezer, m. Eleanor Barnard. (Ibid., p. 306, 1700.) 
Coffin, Thomas, m. Anna Folger. ("Life and Letters of James 

and Lucretia Mott," by Anna Davis Hallowell; also B. F. Folger, 

genealogist, 1779.) 



Appendix. 255 

Chii.deen of Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger. 

Coffin, Lucretia, m. James Mott, of Long Island. (" Life and 
Letters of James and Lucretia Mott," by Anna Davis Hallowell, 
181L) 

Coffin, Eliza, m. Benjamin H. Yarnall, of Philadelphia. (Ibid., 
1814.) 

Coffin, Mary, m. Solomon Temple. (Ibid., 1824.) 

Coffin, Martha, m. Peter Pelham, of Kentucky. (Ibid., 1824.) 

Coffin, Thomas, unm. 

Coffin, Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Coleman. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1757.) 

Coggeshall, Joshua, m. 1st, Joan West (Savage, vol. i., p. 422) ; 
2d, Rebecca Russell (1677). 

Coggeshall, Job, m., among Friends, Deborah Starbuck. (W. C. 
Folger MSS., Starbuck Family, p. 61.) 

Coggeshall, Caleb, m. Elizabeth Hosier. (Family Records, 
1793.) 

Coggeshall, Giles Hosier, m. Marianna Walters. (Ibid., 1833.) 

Coleman, Thomas, 7n. 1st, Susanna; 2d, Mary (widow Edmund 
Johnson); 3d, Margery (Joshua Coffin's "History of Newbury," 
Appendix, p. 298, 1648.) 

Coleman, John, 1st, son Thomas Coleman, m. Joanna Folger. 
(William C. Folger MSS.) 

Coleman, John, 2d, son John Coleman, 1st, m. Priscilla Star- 
buck. (Ibid.) 

Coleman, Dorcas,* m. John Tillotson. (Joshua Coffin's " His- 
tory of Newbury," Appendix, p. 298.) 

Coleman, Jeremiah, m. Sarah Pratt (by William Worth, jus- 
tice of peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 10, 1714-15.) 

Coleman, Andrew, m. Lydia Folger. (W. C. Folger MSS., 
1791.) 

Coleman, Enoch, m. Mary Myrick. (Ibid., 1748.) 

Coleman, Barnabas, son John Coleman, 2d, m. Rachel Hussey, 
as second wife. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 62, 1733.) 

Coleman, Nathaniel, was son of Barnabas and his first wife. 

* Dorcas Coleman was a sister of Thomas Coleman^ the pro- 
prietor. 



256 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Barnabas Coleman and Rachel Hussey. 

Coleman, Sarah, m. George Folger. (W. C. Folger MSS., 1752.> 

Coleman, Abial, m. Timothy Folger. (Ibid., 1753.) 

Coleman, Rebecca, m. Nathaniel CoflBn. (Ibid.) 

Coleman, Judith, m. Andrew Worth. (Ibid.) 

Coleman, Seth, m. Deborah Swain, dau. Reuben Swain. (Nan- 
tucket Friends' Records, 1768.) 

Coleman, Sylvanus, m. 1st, Mary Swift (Ibid., 1768) ; 2d, Phebe 
Bro^\^l (1779). 

Coleman, William, m. 1st, Abigail Barnard (Nantucket Friends*^ 
Records, Bk. II., p. 109, 1770); 2d, Hepzibah Wing (Sandwich 
Friends' Records, 1780). 

Coleman, Barnabas, m. 1st, Abial Clark, by Caleb Bunker, jus- 
tice of peace (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 106, 1776) ; 2d, 
Sarah Morse (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

Coleman, Hepzibah, m. John Russell. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1777). 

Coleman, Elizabeth, m. Abishai Folger, Jr. (W. C. Folger 
MSS., 1772.) 

Coleman, Obed, m. Elizabeth Swain. (Nantucket Friends' Rec- 
ords, 1780.) 

Cornell, William, vi. Lydia Hussey. (Nantucket Town Recorda, 
Bk. I., p. 145, 1799.) 

Dole,i Richard, 6. England, 1624; Newbury, 1639; m. 1st, May 3, 
1647, Hannah Rolfe; 2d, March 4, 1679, Hannah, widow of Cap- 
tain Samuel Brocklebank, of Rowley: 3d, Patience Walker, of 
Haverhill. (Hist, of Newbury, 300, 301.) Richard Dole's will was 
proved July 30th, 1705. 

Do]e,2 John, son of Richard,i m. Oct. 23, 1676, Mrs. Mary Ger- 
rish. (Hist, of Newbury, p. 301.) 

Dole,2, Richard, son of Richard,i in. June 7, 1677, Sarah Green- 
leaf. (Ibid., p. 301.) 

Dole,2 Benjamin, son of Richard,i m. Dec. 11, 1700, Frances, 
dau. Captain Samuel Sherman. (Ibid., p. 301.) 

Dole,2 William, son of Richard,i m. Oct. 13, 1684, Mary Brockle- 
bank, dau. of his father's second wife. (Ibid., p. 301.) 

Dole,2 Henry, son of Richard,i m. Sarah Brocklebank, dau. of 
his father's second wife. (Ibid., p. 301.) 



Appendix. 257 

Dole,2 Apphia, dau. of Richard,i m. Peter Coffin, son of Tris- 
tram Coffin, Jr. (Ibid., p. 299.) 

Dole,2 Abner, son of Richard,i m. 1st, Nov. 1, 1694, Mary 
Jewett, who died 1695; 2d, Jan. 5, 1697, Sarah Belcher. (Ibid., 
p. 301.) 

Earle, Thomas, m. Mary Hussey. (W. C. Folger, p. 184, 1820.) 
Earle, John Milton, m. Sarah Hussey, (Ibid., 1821.) 

Folger, John, ni. Meribah Gibbs (probably second wife . 
(N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xvi., Folger Family.) 
Folger, Peter, m. Mary Morrell. (Savage, vol. ii., pp. 177, 178.) 

Childeen of Peter Folger and Mary Morrell. 

Folger, Eleazer, m. Sarah Gardner, dau. Richard and Sarah 
(Shattuck) Gardner. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 177, 1671.) 

Folger, Joanna, m. John Coleman. (Ibid.) 

Folger, Bethiah, m. John Barnard, son Robert Barnard. 
(Ibid., 1669.) 

Folger, Dorcas, m. Joseph Pratt. (Ibid., 1675.) 

Folger, Patience, m. 1st, Ebenezer Marker. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 
177) ; 2d, James Gardner, as second wife (Ibid., p. 228). 

Folger, Bethsua, m. Joseph Pope, of Salem. (Savage, vol. ii., 
p. 177.) 

Folger, John, m. Mary Barnard, dau. Nathaniel Barnard. 
(Ibid.) 

Folger, Experience, m. John Swain, Jr., son of John Swain, the 
proprietor. (Ibid.) 

Folger, Abiah, m. Josiah Franklin. (N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 
vol. xvi., Folger Family.) 

Children of Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner. 

Folger, Eleazer, Jr., m. 1st, Bethia Gardner (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. I., p. 24); 2d, Mary Marshall (Ibid., p. 10, 1717). 

Folger, Peter, m. Judith Coffin, dau. Stephen and Mary Coffin 
(N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xvi., pp. 271-274, Folger Family.) 

Folger, Nathan, m. Sarah Church. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. L, p. 8, 1699.) 

Folger, Sarah, m. Anthony Oder. (Ibid., p. 6, 1702.) 

Folger, Mary, m. John Arthur. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I., p. 9, 1704.) 



258 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Nathan Folgeb and Sarah Church. 

Folger, Abishai, m. 1st, Sarah Mayhew (W. C. Folger MSS., 
1727) ; 2d, Dinah Starbuck, widow Benjamin, and dan. Stephen 
Coffin, Jr. (Ibid.) 

Folger, Peter, m. Christian Swain. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. L, p. 45, 1731.) 

Folger, Barzillai, m. Phebe Coleman. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1730.) 

Folger, Timothy, m. Anna Chase. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I., p. 30, 1733.) 

Folger, Leah, m. 1st, Richard Gardner, son of Richard, Jr. 
(Ibid., p. 16, 1724) ; 2d, Seth Paddack, son Joseph Paddaek (W. C. 
Folger MSS., Gardner Family, p. 4). 

Folger, Judith, m. Thomas Jenkins. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, 1728-29.) 

Folger, Esther, unm. 

Children of Abishai Folger and First Wife, Sarah 
Mayhew. 

Folger, William, m. Ruth Coffin, dau. Barnabas Coffin. (Nan- 
tucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 170, 1749.) 

Folger, George, m. 1st, Sarah Coleman (Ibid., 1752) ; 2d, Sarah 
Shove, dau. of Barnabas. 

Folger, Timothy, m. Abial Coleman. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1753.) 

Children of Abishai Folger and Second Wife, Dinah 
Stakbuck. 

(Folger, Sarah, m. 1st, Hezekiah Gardner (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1758); 2d, Robert Barker (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

Folger, Hepzibah, m. Daniel liussey, Jr. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 17G0.) 

Folger, Dinah, m. Seth Jenkins. (George H. Folger MSS., p. 
194.) 

Folger, Abishai, m. Elizabeth Coleman. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1773.) 

Folger, Reuben, m. Phebe Folger. (Nantucket To'\\ti Records, 
Bk. I., p. 112, 1783.) 

Folger, Robert, m. Elizabeth Folger, dau. Benjamin Folger. 
(W. C. Folger MSS., p. 9.) 



Appendix. 259 

Children of William Folgee and Ruth Coffin. 

Folger, Judith, m. Zaccheus Bunker, son of Zachery and Desire 
Banker. (Nantucket Friends' Records, 1767.) 

Folger, William, Jr., m. Susan Swain. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, Bk. I., 1798.) 

Folger, Sarah, Jr., m. Tristram Hussey. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, 1777.) 

Folger, Lydia, m. Zaccheus Hussey. (Nantucket Town Records, 
Bk. I., 1780.) 

Folger, Richard, m. Sarah Pease (by George Bunker, justice of 
peace). (Ibid., p. 15, 1722.) 

Folger, Francis, unm.. 

Folger, Elizabeth, m. as second wife Josiah Barker, son Josiah 
and Elizabeth Barker. (Nantucket Friends' Records, 1786.) 

Folger, Phebe, m. Uriel Hussey. (Ibid., 1789.) 

Folger, Anna, m. Thomas Coffin. (Ibid., 1790.) 

Folger, Mayhew,* m. Mary Joy, dau. Francis and Phebe Joy. 
(Ibid., 1798.) 

Folger, Walter, 1st, m. Elizabeth Starbuck, dau. Thomas and 
Rachel Starbuck. (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 18.) 

Folger, Walter, 2d, m. Anna Ray, dau. Alexander and Elizabeth 
Ray. (Ibid., p. 19.) 

Folger, Walter, 3d, m. Polly Folger, dau. Simeon and Phebe 
Folger. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 177, 1809.) 

Folger, Dinah, m. Stephen Chase. (Ibid., p. 47, 1742.) 

Folger, Judith, m. James Gardner. (Ibid., p. 52, 1740.) 

Folger, Nathaniel, m. Priscilla Chase. (Ibid., 1718.) 

Folger, George, Jr., son George and Sarah Folger, m. Rebecca 
Sloeum. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Folger, George GiU, son George, Jr., m. Anna Barker, dau. 
Francis Barker. (Ibid., 1807.) 

Folger, Jethro, in. Mary Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, 
Jr., and Dinah (Coffin). (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., 
p. 6, 1710.) 

Folger, Barzillai, m. Miriam Gardner. (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. I., p. 163, 1803.) 

Folger, Uriah, m. Anna Gardner. (Ibid., p. 157, 1803.) 

* Captain Mayhew Folger found the lost mutineers of the ship 
" Bounty " on Pitcairn Island in 1809. 



260 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Folger, Ann, m. James Mitchell. (See Mitchell Family Rec- 
ords, 1738.) 

Gardiner, Thomas, ni. 1st, Margaret Fi-ier; 2d, Damaris Shat- 
tuck. (ISavage, vol. ii.) 

Children of Thomas Gardiner and Margaret Frier. 

Gardner, Seeth, m. Joseph Grafton, 2d. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 

229.) 

Gardner, Richard, m. Sarah Shattuck. (Ibid., 1652.) 

Gardner, George, w. Hannah Shattuck. (Ibid., p. 228.) 

Gardner, John, m. Priscilla Grafton. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Samuel, in. Mary White. (Ibid., p. 230.) 

Gardner, Joseph, m. Ann Downing, dau. Emanuel Downing. 

(Ibid.) 
Gardner, Sarah, m. Benjamin Balch. (Ibid.) 
Gardner, Miriam, m. John Hill, or Hall. (Ibid.) 

Children of Richard Gardner 1st, and Sarah Shattuck. 

Gardner, Joseph, m. Bethia Macy, dau. Thomas and Sarah 
(Hopcot) Macy. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 229, 1670.) 

Gardner, Sarah, m. Eleazer Folger, son Peter and Mary (Mor- 
rell) Folger. (Ibid., 1671.) 

Gardner, Richard, Jr., m. Mary Austin. (Ibid., p. 230, 1674, 
and Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 2.) 

Gardner, Deborah, m. 1st, John Macy, son Tliomas Macyi 
(Savage, vol. ii., p. 229) ; 2d, Stephen Pease (Macy Genealogy, 
p. 67). 

Gardner, Damaris. 

Gardner, James,* m. 1st, Mary Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr.; 2d, Patience Folger, dau. Peter Folger; 3d, Rachel 
Brown, widow John Brown, of Salem, and dau. Capt. John Gard- 
ner; 4th, Mary Pinkham, widow Richard Pinkham, and dau. 
James Coffin and Mary Severance. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 227.) 

* Children of James Gardner and first wife, Mary Starbuck, 
were Samuel, Jethro, Barnabas, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Mehitable. 
Patience (Folger) Gardner had no children. Rachel (Brown) 
Gardner had one son, James Gardner. Fourth wife, Mary 
(Pinkham) Gardner, had no Gardner children. 



Appendix. 261 

Gardner, Miriam, m. John Worth. (Ibid., p. 229, 1684.) 

Gardner, Nathaniel, m. Abigail Coffin, dau. James and Mary 
(Severance) Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Hope, m. John Coffin. (" Ye Coffin Family," by Allen 
Coffin, LL.B., p. 56, 1692.) 

Gardner, Love. 



Children of John Gardner and Priscilla Grafton. 

Gardner, John, m. Susanna Green, of Salem. (W. C. Folger 
MSS., Gardner Family, p. 30.) 

Gardner, Joseph. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 228.) 

Gardner, Priscilla, m. John Arthur (second wife). (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Benjamin, died young. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Rachel, m. 1st, John Brown; 2d, James Gardner 
(third wife). (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Benjamin. 

Gardner, George, m. Eunice Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr. (W. C. Folger MSS., Gardner Family.) 

Gardner, Ann, m. Edward Coffin. 

Gardner, Nathaniel. 

Gardner, Mary, m. Jethro Coffin. (W. C. Folger MSS,, Gard- 
ner Family.) 

Gardner, Mehitable, m. Ambrose Dawes, Jr. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Ruth, m. James Coffin, Jr. (Ibid.) 

Gardner, Solomon, son Richard, Jr., m. Anna Coffin, dau. 
Stephen Coffin and Mary (Bunker). (W. C. Folger MSS., Gard- 
ner Family.) 

Gardner, Paul, son Solomon, m. Rachel Starbuck, dau. Thomas 
and Rachel Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' Records, vol. i., p. 
223.) 

Gardner, Paul, Jr., m. 1st, Sarah Mitchell, dau. Jethro 
Mitchell; 2d, Merab Spooner, dau. Seth and Dinah Spooner; 3d, 
Lydia Fitch. (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 154.) 

Gardner, Zenas, son Paul and Rachel Gardner, m. Susanna 
Hussey. (Nantucket Friends' Records, vol. ii., p. 342.) ."^ji^ 

Gardner, Richard, son of Richard, Jr., m. Leah Folger. (Nan- 
tucket Town Records, Bk. L, p. 16, 1724.) 

Gardner, Miriam, dau. Richard Gardner, Jr., m. Samuel Coffin, 
son Lieutenant John Coffin. 



262 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Gorham,! Ralph, h. 1575. First of the family in America, came 
from Benefield, England, to Duxbury, Mass. 

Gorham,2 John (Captain), son Ralph Gorham, m. 1G43, De- 
sire Howland, dau. John Rowland and Elizabeth Tilley. (Ply- 
mouth Col. Records, vol. ii., p. 79.) 

Childeen of John Goeuam (1621-1676) and Desire Howland. 

Gorham,3 Desire, m. July 10, 1661, John Hawes, son Edmund 
Hawes. (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," pp. 106, 
107.) 

Gorhan\,3 Temperance. (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 Elizabeth. (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 James, vi. Hannah Huekins, dau. Thomas Huckins 
and Rose ( ). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 John, m. Feb. 24, 1675, Mary Otis, dau. John Otis 
and Mary (Jacob). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 Joseph. (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 Jabez, m. Hannah ( ). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 Mercy, m. George Dennison, son George Dennison 
and Ann (Barrowdale). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 Lydia, /h. Jan. 11, 1684, John Thatcher, son Anthony 
Thatcher and Elizabeth (Jones.) (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 Hannah. (Ibid.) 

Gorham,3 8hubael, m. May, 1695, Puella Hussey, dau. Stephen 
Hussey and Martha (Bunker). (Ibid.) 

Children of John Gorham (1652-1710) and Mary Otis. 

Gorham,4 John, died young. (Ibid., pp. 107, 108.) 

Gorham,4 Temperance, in. 1696, Stephen Clapp, son Samuel 
Clapp and Hannah (Gill). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,4 Mary, m. 1699, Joseph Hinckley, son Samuel Hinck- 
ley and Mary (Fitzrandle). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,4 Stephen, m. Dee. 25, 1703, Elizabeth Gardner, dau. 
James Gardner and Mary (Starbuck). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,* Shubael, m. Dec. 23, 1708, Mary Thatcher, dau. John 
Thatcher and Lydia (Gorham). (Ibid.) 

Gorham, John, m. 1st, Feb. 14, 1705, Ann Brown; 2d, Feb. 10, 
1712, Prudence Crocker, dau. Joseph Crocker and Anne (How- 
land). (Ibid.) 



Appendix. 3G3 

Gorham,-* Thankful, m. June 16, 1710, John Fuller, son John 
Fuller and Hannah { ). (Ibid.) 

Gorham,4 Job. (Ibid) 

Gorham,4 Mercy, m. March 20, 1718, Sylvanus Bourn, son 
Melatiah Bourn and Desire (Chipman). (Ibid.) 



Children of Stephen Gorham (1683-1743) and Elizabeth 
Gardner. Ibid. 

Gorham,5 Mary, m. March, 1721, Andrew Gardner, son Nathan- 
iel Gardner and Abigail (Coffin). 

Gorham,5 Susanna, m. 1st, Oct., 1726, Daniel Paddack, son Na- 
thaniel Paddack and Ann (Bunker) ; 2d, Jan., 1752, Jonathan 
Folger, son John Folger and Mary (Barnard). 

Gorham,5 Nathaniel, m. Jan. 6, 1736, Mary Soley, dau. John 
5'oley and Dorcas (Coffin). 

Gorham,5 Sarah, m. Feb. 18, 1734, Daniel Hussey, son Sylvanug 
Hussey and Abial (Brown). 

Gorham,5 Barnabas, unm. 

Gorham,5 Zaccheus, unm. 

Gorham.s Elizabeth, to. 1st, Aug., 1740, David Bunker, son Ben- 
jamin Bunker and Deborah (Paddack); 2d, William Russell, son 
Daniel Russell and Deborah (Macy). 

Gorham,5 Eunice, m. Jan. 1, 1744, Peleg Gardner, son Jethro 
Gardner and Keziah Folger. 

Gorham,5 Stephen. 

Gorham,5 Josiah, m. Jan. 3, 1753, Deborah Lovell, dau. James 
LoveU. 

Gorham,!' Lois, m. Sept., 1744, Jonathan Macy, son of John 
Macy and Judith (Worth). 

Gorham,5 Lydia, to. Feb. 14, 1750, William Swain, son William 
Swain and Jemima (Coffin). 



Note. — The Gorham family came to England soon after the 
Norman Conqiiest from Gorram, in Brittany; hence the name. 
(" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," p. 109.) 



264 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Desike Gobham ajstd John Hawes. 
Fourth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 106.) 
Elizabeth Hawes. 
Mercy Hawes. 
Edmund Hawes. 
John Hawes. 
Joseph Hawes. 
Jabez Hawes. 
Isaac Hawes. 
Benjamin Hawes. 
Ebenezer Hawes. 
Desire Hawes. 
Experience Hawes. 

Chilbren of James Gorham and Hannah Huckins. 

Fourth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 106.) 
Desire Gorham. 
James Gorham. 
Experience Gorham. 
John Gorham, 
Mehitable Gorham. 
Thomas Gorham. 
Mercy Gorham. 
Joseph Gorham. 
Jabez Gorham. 
Sylvanus Gorham. 
Ebenezer Gorham. 

Children of Jabez Gorham and Hannah . 

Fourth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 
Samuel Gorham. 
Jabez Gorham. 
Shubael Gorham. 
Isaac Gorham. 
John Gorham. 
Joseph Gorham. 
Hannah Gorham. 
Benjamin Gorham. 
Thomas Gorham. 
Elizabeth Gorham. 



Appendix. 265 

CHIT.DEEN OF MERCY (GoEHAM) AND GeORGE DeNNISON. 

Fourth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 

Edward Dennison. 

Joseph Dennison. 

Mercy Dennison. 

Samuel Dennison. 

Elizabeth Dennison. 

Desire Dennison. , 

Thankful Dennison. 

George Dennison. 



Children of Lydia (Gorham) and John Thatcher. 

Fourth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 

Lydia Thatcher. 
Mary Thatcher. 
Desire Thatcher. 
Hannah Thatcher. 
Mercy Thatcher. 
Judah Thatcher. 
Mercy Thatcher. 
Ann Thatcher. 
Joseph Thatcher. 
Benjamin Thatcher. 
Mercy Thatcher. 



Children of Shubael Gorham and Puella Hussey. 

Fourth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 

George Gorham. 
Abigail Gorham. 
Lydia Gorham. 
Hannah Gorham. 
Theodate Gorham. 
Daniel Gorham. 
Desire Gorham. 
Ruth Gorham. 
Deborah Gorham. 
8allv Gorham. 



2G6 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Temperance (Gorham) and Stephen Clapp. 

Fifth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 
John Clapp. 
Rachel Clapp. 
Thomas Clapp. 
Stephen Clapp. 
Nathaniel Clapp. 

Children of IIary (Gorhaw) and Joseph Hinckley. 

Fifth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 
John Hinckley. 
Isaac Hinckley. 
Mercy Hinckley. 
Mary Hinckley. 
Thankful Hinckley. 

Child of Shubael Gorham and Mary Thatcher. 
Fifth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 
John Gorham. 

Children of John Gorham and First Wife, Ann Brown. 

Fifth generation from Jolm Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 
Benjamin Gorham. 
Nathaniel Gorham. 
Joseph Gorham. 
Thankful Gorham. 
Mary Gorham. 
Abigail Gorham. 
Rachel Gorham. 
Prudence Gorham. 

Children of Thankful (Gorham) and John Fuller. 

Fifth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 107.) 
Hannah Fuller. 
John Fuller. 
Mary Fuller. 
Bethiah Fuller. 
Nathaniel Fuller. 



Appendix. 367 

Childeen of Mercy (Gorham) and Sylvanus Bourn. 

Fifth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

Desire Bourn. 
Mary Bourn. 
Melatiah Bourn. 
William Bourn. 
Hannah Bourn. 
Mercy Bourn. 
Abigail Bourn. 
Sylvanus Bourn. 
Eunice Bourn. 
Kichard Bourn. 



Children of Mary (Gorham) and Andrew Gardner. 

Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

Christopher Gardner. 
Nathaniel Gardner. 
Stephen Gardner. 
Thomas Gardner. 
Andrew Gardner. 
Solomon Gardner. 
Josiah Gardner. 
Zachariah Gardner. 
Mary Gardner. 
Abigail Gardner. 
Elizabeth Gardner. 



Children of Susanna (Gorham) and Daniel Paddack. 

Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

Elizabeth Paddack. 
Stephen Paddack. 
Lydia Paddack. 
Susanna Paddack. 
Eunice Paddack. 
Deborah Paddack. 
Barnabas Paddack. 



268 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Children of Sarah (Gorham) and Daniel Hussey. 
Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

Stephen Hussey. 
Elizabeth Hussey. 
Daniel Hussey. 
Rachel Hussey. 



Children of Elizabeth (Gorham) and David Bunker. 
Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

Lois Bunker. 
Eunice Bunker. 
David Bunker. 
Solomon Bunker. 
Alexander Bunker. 
Elizabeth Bunker. 



Children of Eunice (Gorham) and Peleg Gardner. 
Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

Kesiah Gardner. 
Rachel Gardner. 
Barzillai Gardner. 
Sarah Gardner. 
Elizabeth Gardner. 



Children of Josiah Gorham and Deborah Lovell. 
Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 

James Gorham. 
Abigail Gorham. 
Stephen Gorham. 
John Gorham. 
Josiah Gorham. 
Deborah Gorham. 



Appendix. 269 

Childeen of Lois (Gorham) and Jonathan Macy. 
Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 
Elizabeth Macy. 
Miriam Macy. 
Jonathan Macy. 
Barnabas Macy. 
Solomon Macy. 
Susanna Macy. 
Samuel Macy. 
Peleg Macy. 
Judith Macy. 
Samuel Macy. 
Seth Macy. 

Children of Lydia (Gorham) and William Swain. 

Sixth generation from John Howland. (Ibid., p. 108.) 
John Swain. 
Elizabeth Swain. 
Hepzibeth Swain. 
Lydia Swain. 
Abner Swain. 

Greenleaf, Stephen, Sr., m. 1st, Elizabeth Coffin (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg., vol. xxiv., p. 150) ; 2d, Esther,* widow Captain Benja- 
min Swett (Hist, of Newbury, p. 304). 

Children of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin. 

Greenleaf, Stephen, m. Elizabeth Gerrish, dau. William Gerrish. 
("Ye Coffin Family," Allen Coffin, LL.B., p. 55, and Hist, of New- 
bury, 1676.) 

Greenleaf, Sarah, m. Richard Dole, of Newberry, son Richard 
Dole. (Ibid., 1677.) 

Greenleaf, Daniel, unm. (Ibid.) 

Greenleaf, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Noyes, son James Noyes. 
(Hist, of Newbury, p. 312, 1677.) 

Greenleaf, John, m. Elizabeth Hills. (Ibid., p. 304, 1685.) 



* Esther Greenleaf, second wife of Stephen Greenleaf, Sr., died 
in 1718, aged eighty -nine. 



270 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Greenleaf, Samuel, m. Sarah Kent, dau. John Kent. (Ibid., 
p. 304, 1689.) 

Greenleaf, Tristram, m. Margaret Piper. (Ibid., p. 304, 1689.) 

Greenleaf, Edmund, m. Abigail Somerby, dau. Abiel Somerby, 
(Ibid., p. 304, 1691.) 

Greenleaf, Judith, «nm. (Ibid.) 

Greenleaf, Mary, m. Joshua Moody, son Caleb Moody. (Allen 
Coffin, LL.B.) 

Greenleaf, Sarah, dau. Nathaniel, and granddau. Tristram and 
Margaret (Piper) Greenleaf, m. Joseph Whittier, 2d. (Whit- 
tier Family Records.) 

Hosier, Giles, m. Elizabeth Mitchell. (Family Papers, 1768.) 
Hussey, John, m. Mary Wood. (Eng. Records, 1593; see page 

50.) 
Hussey, Christopher, son John Hussey, m. 1st, Theodate 

Batchelder (Ibid., 1G32) ; 2d, Ann Mingay (Ibid., 1658). 



Children of Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batch- 
elder. 

Hussey, Stephen, m. Martha Bunker, dau. George and Jane 
(Godfrey) Bunker. (W. C. Folger MSS., 1676.) 

Hussey, John, vi. Rebecca Perkins, dau. Isaac and Susanna 
Perkins, of Hampton. (Savage, vol. ii., p. 507, 1659.) 

Hussey, Mary, m. 1st, Thomas Page, son Robert and Lucy Page 
(Dow's Hist, of Hampton, vol. ii., p. 890, 1664) ; 2d, Henry Green 
(Savage, vol. ii., p. 507, 1691; 3d, Henry Dow, son Henry and 
Joan Dow (Dow's Hist, of Hampton, vol. ii., p. 679). 

Hussey, Theodate. 

Hussey, Huldah, m. John Smith, son John Smith. (Savage, vol. 
ii , p. 507, 1607.) 



Note. — Savage, vol. ii., pp. 507, 508, gives: 

Robert Hussey, Duxbury, 1643-45; probably died 1667. 

Robert Hvissey, Dover, in tax-list 1659. 

Robert Hussey, Boston, 1690. 



Appendix. 271 

Children of Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker. 

Hussey, Puella, nt. Sliubael Gorliam, son John and Mary (Otis) 
Gorham. (Nantucket Probate Records, Book A I., p. 41, 1695.) 

Hussey, Abigail, m. 1st, Thomas Hause (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. I., p. 5, 1700) ; 2d, Joseph Marshall, son James and 
Ruth (Hawkins) Marshall (W. C. Folger MSS.). 

Hussey, Sylvanus, m. 1st, Abial Brown,* dau. John and Rachel 
(Gardner) Brown (Nantucket Town Records, Bk, I., p. 9, 1711- 
12) ; 2d, Hepzibah Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and 
Dinah (Coffin) (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 25, 1720). 

Hussey, Batchelor, 7n. Abigail Hall. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, Bk. I., p. 8, 1704.) 

Hussey, Daniel, unm. 

Hussey, Mary, m. 1st, Jonathan Worth, son John and Miriam 
(Gardner) Worth (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 9, 1707) ; 
2d, Ebenezer Barnard, son Nathaniel and Mary Barnard (W. C. 
Folger MSS.). 

Hussey, George, m. Elizabeth Starbuck, dau. Nathaniel, Jr., 
and Dinah (Coffin) Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. 
I., p. 10, 1717.) 

Hussey, Theodate, m. James Johnson. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, Bk. I., p. 21, 1726.) 



Children of Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Abial Brown. 

Hussey, Obed, m. 1st, Margaret Wilson, dau. John and Mar- 
garet Wilson (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 26, 1730) ; 2d, 
Mary Calef, dau. Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Fitch) Calef (Ibid., 
Bk. I., p. 56, 1748) . 

Hussey, Daniel, m. Sarah Gorham, dau. Stephen and Elizabeth 
(Gardner) Gorham. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 29, 1734-35.) 

Hussey, Rachel, m. 1st, Barnabas Coleman, son John and Pris- 
cilla (Starbuck) Coleman (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., 
p. 62, 1733); 2d, Paul Bunker, son Jabez and Hannah (Gardner) 
Bunker (Nantucket Friends' Records, vol. ii., p. 340). 



* Abial Brown was great-granddaughter of Peter Hobart. 
See pp. 84, 85 supra, and Savage, vol. ii., p. 271, 435; also His- 
tory of Hingham, Massachusetts, vol. iv., p. 335. 



272 Early Settlers of NantucJcet. 

Hussey, Jonathan, m. Hepzibah Starbuck, dau. Paul and Ann 
(Tibbets) Starbuck. (Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 93, 10th mo. 
25th, 1738.) 

Hussey, Seth, m. Sarah Jenkins, dau. Matthew and Mary 
(Gardner) Jenkins. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 110, 
1742.) 



Children of Sylvanus Hussey, Sr., and Hepzibah Starbuck. 

Hussey, Christopher, m. Mary Coffin, dau. Jonathan and Hep 
zibah (Harker) Coffin. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 48.) 

Hussey, William, m. Abigail Starbuck, dau. Paul and Ann 
(Tibbets) Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 52, 
1746.) 

Hussey, Batchelor, m. Anna Coffin, dau. Daniel and Mary 
(Blake) Coffin. (Ibid., p. 157, 1748.) 

Jlussey, Nathaniel, m. Judith Coffin, dau. Francis and Theodatc 
(Gorham) Coffin. (Ibid., p. 185, 1750.) 

Hussey, Hepzibah, m. Nathaniel Colemain, son Barnabas and 
Elizabeth (Barnard) Coleman, (Ibid., p. 172, 1749.) 

Hussey, Sylvanus, Jr., m. 1st, Alice Gray, dau. Jeremiah and 
Theodate Gray (Friends' Records, vol. ii., p. 17, 1756) ; 2d, Lydia 
Wing, dau. Samuel and Hepzibah (Hathaway) Wing (Sandwich 
Friends' Records, p. 52) . 

Hussey, George, m. Deborah Paddack, dau. Daniel and Susanna 
(Gorham) Paddack. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Book II., p. 
25, 1757.) 

Hussey, Joseph, m. Mai-y Raymer. (Ibid., p. 137, 17G6.) 



Children of George Hussey and Deborah Paddack. 

Hussey, Rhoda, m. Tristram Folger, son Barzillai and Phebe 
(Coleman) Folger. (Nantucket Friends' Records, vol. ii., p. 234, 
1776.) 

Hussey, Eunice, m. Peleg Easton, son Peleg and Mary (Frye) 
Easton. (Ibid., p. 253, 1778.) 

Hussey, George Gorham, m. Lydia Chase, dau. Francis and 
Naomi (Gardner) Chase. (Ibid., p. 292, 1784.) 

Hussey, Uriel, m. Phebe Folger, dau. William and Ruth 
(Coffin) Folger. (Ibid., p. 332, 1789.) 



Appendix. 273 

Hussey, Sylvanus, m. Prudence Pease, dau. John and Jerusha 
(Norton) Pease. (Nantucket Town Records, Dec. 25, 1794.) 

Hussey, Barnabas. (Nantucket Friends' Records.) 

Hussey, Susanna, m. Zenas Gardner, son Paul and Rachel 
(Starbuck) Gardner. (Ibid., p. 342, 1790.) 

Hussey, Deborah, m. Robert Brayton, son Israel and Elizabeth 
(Lawton) Brayton. (Ibid., vol. iv., p. 4, 1795.) 

Hussey, Alice, unm. (Ibid.) 

Hussey, Rachel, m. Joseph Austin, son Jeremiah and Patience 
(Fish) Austin. (Ibid., vol. iv., p. 44, 1808.) 

Hussey, Mary, m. Peleg Swain. (Nantucket Town Records, 

Bk. I., p. 25, 1730.) 

Hussey, Tristram, son Bachelor Hussey, m. Sarah Folger, dau. 

William and Ruth (Coffin) Folger. (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 171, 

1777.) 
Hussey, Sarah, m. John Milton Earle, son Pliny and Patience 

Earle. (Ibid., p. 180, 1821.) 

Hussey, Daniel, m. Anna Starbuck. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, Bk. I., p. 133, 1793.) 
Hussey, Mary, m. Thomas Earle, son Pliny and Patience Earle. 

(W. C. Folger MSS., 1820.) 
Hussey, Reuben, m. Elizabeth Woodbury. (Nantucket To^vn 

Records, Bk. I., p. 50, 1744.) 

Hussey, Zaccheus, m. Lydia Folger. (Nantucket Court Rec- 
ords, Bk. I., p. 24.) 

Hussey, Simeon, m. Abigail Bunker. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 2, 1784.) 
Hussey, Albert, m. Rebekah Shove. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 28, 1785.) 
Hussey, James, m. Eunice Swain. (Ibid., 1786.) 
Hussey, Samuel, m. Charlotte Bartlett. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 4, 

1789.) 
Hussey, Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Swain. (Ibid., p. 6, 1790.) 
Hussey, Ebenezer, m. Mehitable Smith. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 4, 

1770.) 
Hussey, Reuben, m. Phebe Bunker. (Ibid., p. 5, 1772.) 
Hussey, Jethro, m. Margaret Coffin. (Ibid., p. 12, 1766.) 
Hussey. John, son Bachelor and Abigail, m. Jedidah Coffin, 

dau. Joseph and Bethiah Coffin. (Nantucket Friends' Records, 

Bk. I., p. 67, 1733-34.) 
Hussey, Bethiah, m. Bachelor Bunker. (Nantucket Town 

Records, Bk. I., p. 73, 1759.) 



274 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Hussey, Abigail, in. Joseph Myrick. (Ibid., p. 76, 1763.) 
Hussey, Hepzibah, m. Job Bunker. (Court Records, Bk. I., p. 
29, 1767.) 

Hussey, Sarah, m. John Darling. (Ibid., p. 1, 1767.) 
Hussey, Mary, m. Ebenezer Perkins. (Ibid., p. 26, 1783.) 
Hussey, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Delano. (Ibid., p. 25, 1781.) 
Hussey, Lydia, m. Alexander Coffin. (Ibid., p. 28, 1784.) 
Hussey, Susanna, m. Obed Barnard. (Ibid., 1786.) 
Hussey, Abiel, m. Philip Pollard. (Ibid., p. 2, 1786.) 
Hussey, Abigail, m. Bachelor Bunker. (Ibid., p. 14, 1773.) 

Daughters of George and Elizabeth (Starbuck) Hussey. 

Hussey, Ruth, m. Nathaniel Gardner, son Nathaniel and Mary 
Gardner, (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 146, 1746.) 

Hussey, Elizabeth, m. Peleg Coffin, son Francis and Theodate 
Coffin. (Ibid., p. 103, 1749.) 

Hussey, Martha, m. Richard Swain, son Richard and Elizabeth 
Swain. (Ibid., p. 197, 1751.) 

Hussey, Deborah, m. Peter Coffin, son Paul and Mary Coffin. 
(Ibid., p. 87, 1738.) 

Hussey, Lydia, m. Clothier Pierce, son Clothier and Hannah 
Pierce, of Newport. (Ibid., p. 113, 1742.) 

Hussey, Dinah, w. Reuben Folger, son Jonathan and Margaret 
Folger. (Ibid., p. 125, 1743-44.) 

Hussey, Christopher, m. Lydia Manchester. (Nantucket Court 

Records, Bk. I., p. 2, 1769.) 
Hussey, Sarah, m. John Waterman. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 2, 1786.) 
Hussey, Abigail, m. Perez Waterman, (Ibid., Bk. I., p, 12, 

1765.) 
Hussey, Abiel, m. Francis Pinkham. (Ibid., p. 29, 1787.) 
Hussey, Mary, m. Thaddeus Gardner. (Ibid., Bk, II., p. 3, 

1788.) 
Hussey, Elizabeth, m. Peter Chace. (Ibid., p. 5, 1789.) 
Hussey, Abiel, m. Nathaniel Coffin, (Ibid., Bk. I., p, 7, 1752.) 
Hussey, Elizabeth, m. David Basitard or Basihard. (Ibid,, p, 

8, 1755.) 
Hussey, Lydia, m. Simeon Bunker, (Ibid., p, 2, 1769.) 
Hussey, Margaret, m. Thomas Snow. (Ibid., p. 15, 1768.) 
Hussey, Huldah, dau. Bachelor and Abigail Hussey, m. Simeon 



Appendix. 275 

Bunker, son Jonathan and Elizabeth Bunker. (Nantucket 
Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 71, 1734-35.) 

Hussey, Jedidah, dau. Bachelor and Abigail Hussey, m. Ben- 
jamin Coffin, son Nathaniel and Damaris Coffin. (Ibid., p. 32, 
1726.) 

Hussey, Elizabeth, dau. Daniel and Sarah Hussey, m. Benjamin 
Coffin, son Benjamin and Jedidah Coffin. (Ibid., 1754.) 

Macy Family. 
Macy,i Thomas, m. Sarah Hopcot. 

Children of Thomas Macy and Sarah Hopcot. 
Macy Family, p. 67. 

Macy ,2 Sarah, unm. 

Macy ,2 Sarah, m. April 11, 1665, William Worth, son of John 
Worth. (Ibid., p. 67.) 

Macy ,2 Mary, m. April 11, 1669, William Bunker, son of George 
Bunker and Jane (Godfrey). (Ibid., p. 67.) 

Macy ,2 Bethiah, m. March 30, 1670, Joseph Gardner, son of 
Pdchard Gardner and Sarah (Shattuck). (Ibid., p. 67.) 

Macy,2 Thomas, unm. 

Macy ,2 John, m. Deborah Gardner, dau. of Richard Gardner 
and Sarah (Shattuck). (Ibid., p. 67.) 

Macy,2 Francis, num. 

Children of John Macy (1655-1691) and Deborah Gardner. 
Ibid., pp. 67, 68. 

Macy,3 John,* m. April 25, 1707, Judith Worth, dau. John 
Worth and Miriam (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 68.) 

Macy ,3 Sarah, m. John Barnard, son Nathaniel Barnard and 
Mary (Barnard). (Ibid., p. 68.) 

Macy ,3 Deborah, m. Daniel Russell. (Ibid., p. 68.) 

* John and Judith (Worth) Macy were the first of the name 
who joined the Society of Friends; they became members in 
1711 (Macy Gen., p. 68), three years after the Society was estab- 
lished on the island. 

Note. — Figure over surname in Macy family indicates genera- 
tion from Thomas Macy, proprietor and settler. 



276 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Macy,3 Bethiah, rri. 1st, Joseph Coffin, son James Coffin and 
Mary Severance; 2d, John Renough. (Ibid., p. 68.) 

Macy,3 Jabez, m. Nov. 7, 1712, Sarah Starbuck, dau. Jethro 
Starbuek and Dorcas Gayer. (Ibid., p. 77.) 

Macy,3 Mary, m. July, 1711, Solomon Coleman, son John Cole- 
man and Joanna (Folger). (Ibid., p. 68.) 

Macy,3 Thomas, m. Deborah Coffin, dau. Lieu. John Coffin and 
Deborah Austin, June 18, 1708. (Ibid., p. 78.) 

Macy,3 Richard,* m. 1st, Sept. 8, 1711, Deborah Pinkham, dau. 
Reuben Pmkham and Mary (Coffin) ; 2d, June 8, 1769, Alice Pad- 
daek, dau. Joseph Paddack and Sarah Gardner. (Ibid., p. 80.) 



Childben of John Macy (1675-1751) and Judith Worth. 
Ibid., pp. 68, 69. 

Macy ,4 Miriam, m. July, 1725, Zephaniah Coffin, son of Stephen 
Coffin and Experience (Look). (Ibid., p. 68.) 

Macy ,4 Sylvanus, tinm. 

Macy,* Seth, unm. 

Macy,* Eliabj unm. 

Macy,* David, m. Nov., 1739, Dinah Gardner, dau. Solomon 
Gardner and Anna (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 82.) 

Macy,* Anna, m. Oct., 1734, Joseph Jenkins, son of Matthew 
Jenkins and Mary (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 68.) 

Macy,* Bethiah, unm. 

Macy,* John, m. Aug. 13, 1743, Eunice Coleman, dau. Elihu 
Coleman and Jemima (Barnard). (Ibid., p. 83.) 

Macy,* Judith, m. 1753, William Clasby, Jr., son William 
Clasby and Abial (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 69.) 

Macy,* Jonathan, m. July, 1744, Lois Gorham, dau. Stephen 
Gorham and Elizabeth (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 85.) 

Macy,* William, m. Nov. 13, 1746, Mary Barney, dau. Benja- 
min Barney and Lydia (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 86.) 

Macy,* Sarah, m. Oct., 1746, Richard Gardner, son Solomon 
Gardner and Anna (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 69.) 

Macy,* Abigail, unm. 

* Richard Macy built the first wharf on Nantucket, in 1723, 
also the first windmill. (Macy Gen., p. 81.) 

Note. — lohn Worth, who married Miriam Gardner, was son 
of William Worth and Sarah Macy. 



Appendix. 277 

Children of Jabez Macy (1683-1776) and Sarah Starbtjck. 

Ibid., pp. 77, 78. 

Macy ,4 George, unm. 

Maey,4 Eunice, m. July, 1742, Richard, son of John Beard. 
(Ibid., p. 78.) 

Macy,-* Dorcas, unm. 

Macy,* Jethro, m. May, 1750, Hepzibah Worth, dau. William 
Worth and Mary (Butler). (Ibid., p. 87.) 

Macy,* Daniel, m. 1755, Abigail Swain, dau. Caleb Swain and 
Margaret (Paddack). (Ibid., p. 88.) 

Macy,4 Matthew, m. 1755, 1st, Abigail Coffin, dau. Benjamin 
Coffin and Jedidah (Hussey) ; 2d, Abigail Gardner. (Ibid., p. 88.) 

Macy,* Lydia, m. 1775, Matthew Jenkins, son of Peter Jenkins 
and Abigail (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 78.) 

Macy,* unm. 

Macy,* Jabez, to. 1767, Rachel Cartwright, dau. Hezidiah Cart- 
wright and Abigail (Brown). (Ibid., p. 89.) 

Children of Thomas Macy* (1687-1759) and Deborah Coffin. 
Ibid., pp. 78-79. 

Macy,* Joseph, m. 1728, Hannah Hobbs, dau. Benjamin Hobbs. 
(IMd., p. 90.) 

Macy,* Robert, to. Jan. 3, 1731, Abigail Barnard, dau. Benja- 
min Barnard and Judith (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 97.) 

Macy,* Love, to. Feb. 21, 1733, Joseph Rotch, son William 
Rotch and Hannah ( ). (Ibid., p. 79.) 

Macy,* Francis, m. March, 1738, Judith Coffin, dau. Richard 
Coffin and Ruth (Bunker). (Ibid., p. 93.) 

Macy,* Nathaniel, to. Jan., 1741, Abigail Pinkham, dau. Shu- 
bael Pinkham and Abigail (Bunker). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

Macy,* Lydia, m. Dec, 1747, Jethro Coleman, son John Cole- 
man and Priseilla (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 79.) 

* " Thomas Macy s about 1720 assisted in capturing and killing 
a whale; he either took or sent his share of the whalebone to 
England, where he sold it, and purchased a bolt of Irish Linen, a 
clock, and a copy of Sewell's History." The clock has a place 
on a genealogical tree. It descended to Joseph, Paul, and Obed 
Macy, traveled to New Garden, N. C, to Ohio, and finally to 
Troy, N. Y. 



278 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Macy,* Elizabeth, m. Oct., 1741, Francis Barnard, son Benjamin 
Barnard and Judith (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 79.) 

Macy,* ThomaSj unm. 

Maey,4 Deborah, w. Benjamin Coffin, son Nathaniel CoflBn and 
Damaris (Gayer). (Ibid., p. 79.) 

Macy,* Anna, m. Nov., 1752, Richard Worth, son Richard 
Worth and Sarah (Hoag). (Ibid., p. 79.) 

Macy,4 Hepzibah, m. Nov., 1752, Thomas Davis. (Ibid., p. 79.) 

Children of Richabd Macy (1689-1779) and First Wife, 
Deborah Pinkham. Ibid., 80, 81. 

Macy ,4 Lydia, unm. 

Maey,4 Zaceheus, m. Oct. 2, 1734, Hepzibah Gardner, dau. 
Samuel Gardner and Patience (Swain). (Ibid., p. 95.) 

Macy,4 Abraham, m. April, 1738, Anna Worth, dau. Joseph 
Worth and Lydia (Gorham). (Ibid., p. 109.) 

Macy,4 Mary, m. Feb., 1749, Benjamin Marshall, son Joseph 
Marshall and Mercy (Short). (Ibid., p. 81.) 

Macy,* Caleb, m. Dec. 8, 1749, Judith Gardner (widow James 
Gardner), dau. Daniel Folger and Abigail (Folger). (Ibid., 
p. 110.) 

Macy ,4 Judith, m. Sept., 1742, Jonathan Bunker, son Peleg 
Bunker and Susauna (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 81.) 

Macy ,4 Ruth, m. Aug., 1744, Joseph Starbuck, son Paul Star- 
buck and Ann (Tibbetts). (Ibid., p. 81.) 

Macy ,4 Hannahj unm. 

Macy ,4 Richardj unm. 

Macy ,4 Priscilla, unm. 

Macy ,4 Benjamin, m. Abigail Brown, dau. George Brown and 
Abigail Trott. (Ibid., p. 111.) 

Macy ,4 Sylvanus, unm. 

Children of David Macy, b. 1714, d. in North Carolina, and 
Dinah Gardner. Ibid., p. 82. 

Macy,'- Stephen, m. Oct., 1760, Mercy Allen, dau. Nathaniel 
Allen and Mercy (Skiff). (Ibid., p. 111.) 

Macy,5 David, m. Hannah White, dau. Isaac White and 
Catharine (Stanton). (Ibid., p. 112.) 

Macy,5 Miriam, m. Dec, 1761, Robert Gardner, son Robert 
Gardner and Jedidah (Folger). (Ibid., p. 82.) 



Appendix. 279 

Macy,5 Arma, m. Oct., 1763, Enoch Macy, son Joseph Macy and 
Hannah Hobbs. (Ibid., p. 82.) 

Macy,5 Sarah, m. Oct., 1766, Timothy Russell, son Williana 
Kussell and Euth (Swain). (Ibid., p. 82.) 

Macy ,5 Hepzibah, U7im. 

Maey.s Abigail,* m. 1774, Benjamin Stanton, son Henry Stan- 
ton and Lydia (Albertson). (Ibid., p. 83; N. C. Friends' Rec- 
ords.) 



Chii-dren of John Macy. b. 1721, axd Eunice Coleman. 
Ibid., pp. S3, S4. 

Maey,5 Bethiah, m. Nov., 1761, Paul Macy, son of Joseph 
Macy and Hannah (Hobbs). (Ibid., p. 84.) 

Macy ,5 Judith, m. Dec, 1767, Reuben Bunker, son Reuben 
Bunker and Mary (Chase). (Ibid., p. 84.) 

Macy ,5 Eliab, unm. 

Macy ,5 Jemima, ni. BarzClai Gardner, son Stephen Gardner and 
Jemima (Worth). (Ibid., p. 84.) 

Macy ,5 Eunice, unm. 

Macy,5 John, m. Rhoda Gardner, dau. Stephen Gardner and 
Jemima (Worth). (Ibid., p. 113.) 

Macy ,5 Elihu, unm. 

Macy ,5 Eunice, unm. 

Macy ,5 Barachiah, m. March 20, 1783, Lucinda Barnard, dau. 
Benjamin Barnard and Eunice (Fitch). (Ibid., p. 113.) 

Macy,5 Merab, m. Jan. 8, 1783, Timothy Macy, son Jethro 
Macy and Hepzibah (Worth). (Ibid., p. 84.) 

Macy ,6 Abigail, unm. 

Macy ,5 Micajah, unm. 

Macy,5 Amy, m. Libni Barnard, son Benjamin Barnard and 
Eunice (Fitch). (Ibid., p. 84.) 

Macy ,5 Clement. 



* Grandmother of Ed\rin M. Stanton, who was appointed 
Atty. Genl., December 20, 18G0, and remained in Mr. Buchanan's 
Cabinet until Lincoln's inauguration March 4, 1861. Air. Lincoln 
appointed him Secretary of War January 11, 1862; after the 
death of Lincoln he continued in that position until suspended 
by Air. Johnson Aug. 12, 1867. 



280 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Childken of Jonathan Macy (1725-1798) and Lois Gobham. 
Ibid., pp. 85, 86. 

Macy ,5 Elizabeth, m. 1762, Elihu Coleman, son of Jethro Cole- 
man and Lydia (Paddack). (Ibid., p. 86.) 

Macy ,5 Jonathan, m. Dec. 3, 1778, Rose Pinkhara, dau. Reuben 
Pinkhara and Ann (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 114.) 

Macy,5 Barnabas, m. Feb., 1784, Abial Claaby, dau. Joseph 
Clasby and Lydia (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 117.) 

Macy ,5 Solomon^ xinm. 

Macy ,5 Susanna^ unm. 

Macy ,5 Samuel, unm. 

Macy ,5 Peleg, m. Oct. 28, 1784, Sarah Starbuck (widow of 
Zaccheus Starbuck), and daughter of John Hunt Wendall and 
Sarah (Tilden). (Ibid., p. 117.) 

Macy,5 Judithj unm. 

Macy ,5 Samuel, m. 1st, June 29, 1786, Lydia Folger, dau. Wal- 
ter Folger and Elizabeth (Starbuck); 2d, June, 1832, Mary 
Clasby, dau. William Clasby and Hepzibah (Coleman). (Ibid., 
p. 119.) 

Macy ,5 Seth, unm. 



Children of William Macy (1727-1753) and Mary Barney. 
Ibid., p. 86. 

Macy ,5 Sarah, unm. 

Macy ,5 Lydia, unm. 

Macy ,5 William, Jr., m. 1st, Dee. 12, 1771, Anna Hussey, dau. 
Paul Hussey and Anne (Varney) ; 2d, May, 1807, Jedidab Barker, 
dau. Robert Barker and Sarah (Folger). (Ibid., p. 120.) 



Children of Jethro Macy, b. 1728, died in North Carolina, 
AND Hepzibah Worth. Ibid., 87. 

Macy,5 Hepzibeth, m. Thomas Pierce. (Ibid., p. 87.) 

Macy ,5 Mary, m. Samuel Coffin, son William Coffin and Pris- 
cilla Paddack. (Ibid., p. 87.) 

Macy ,5 Jethro, m. 1777, Susanna Wilcox, dau. John Wilcox and 
Hannah (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 121.) 

Macy,5 Gayer, m. Anna Clasby, dau. Charles Clasby and Anna 
( ). (Ibid., p. 122.) 



Appendix. 381 

Macy,5 Jedidah, m. Joseph Swain, son Nathaniel Swain and 
Bethiah (Macy). (Ibid., p. 87.) 

Maey.o Timothy, m. Jan. 8, 1783, Merab Macy, dau. John 
Macy and Eunice (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 123.) 

Macy,f' Elizabeth, unm. 

Macy ,5 Huldah, m. Nov. 15, 1792, Asa Barnard, son Tristram 
Barnard and Margaret (Folger). (Ibid., p. 87.) 



Childben of Daniel Macy (1731-1785) and Abigail Swain. 
Ibid., p. 88. 

Macy ,5 Sylvanus, m. 1st, May 30, 1782, Dinah Bunker, dau. 
raul Bunker and Hannah (Gardner) ; 2d, Oct. 3, 1798, Mary Fos- 
ter (widow of John Foster), and dau. Francis Swain and Mary 
(Paddack). (Ibid., p. 124.) 

Macy,5 Lydia, unm. 

Maey,5 Margaret, m. 1787, Obed Paddack, son of Jonathan 
Paddack and Kesia (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 88.) 

Macy,B Uriah, m. 1787, Eunice Barney, dau. Benjamin Barney 
and Jemima (Jenkins). (Ibid., p. 124.) 

Macy ,5 Daniel, ni^m. 

Macy,o Abigail, to. 1791, Matthew Barney, son Benjamin Bar- 
ney and Jemima (Jenkins). (Ibid., p. 88.) 



Children of Matthew Macy, d. 1792, First Wife, Abi- 
gail Coffin; Second Wife, Abigail Gardneb. 

Ibid., pp. 88-89. 

Macy ,5 Matthew, m. Lydia Barnard, dau. Benjamin Barnard 
and Eunice (Fitch). (Ibid., p. 125.) 

Macy,5 Sarah, ni. Stephen Springer. (Ibid., p. 89.) 

Macy ,5 Abigail, m. Joseph Coffin, son Peter Coffin and Pris- 
cilla (Coleman). (Ibid:, p. 89.) 

Macy,5 Elizabeth, m. Libni Coffin, son Libui Coffin and Hep- 
zibeth (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 89.) 

Macy,5 George,* m. 1785, Matilda Folger, dau. Reuben Folger 
and Dinah (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 126.) 

* George Macy, certainly, was child of second wife. 



282 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Daughter of Jabez Macy (1737-1767) and Rachel Cakt- 
WRiGHT. Ibid.j p. 89. 

Macy.s Lydia, m. Dec. 28, 1786, Uriah Starbuck, Bon of 
Sylvanus Starbuck and Mary (Howes). (Ibid., p. 89.) 



Children of Joseph Macy (1709-1772) and Hannah Hobbs. 
Ibid., p. 90. 

Macy,5 Mary, m. Sept., 1753, Paul Way, son John Way and 
Mary (Long). (Ibid., p. 90.) 

Macy,5 Thomas, m. Jan., 1755, Mary Starbuck, dau. Tristram 
Starbuck and Deborah (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 126.) 

Macy ,5 Bethiah, m. Oct., 1755, Nathaniel Swain, son Caleb 
Swain and Margaret (Paddack). (Ibid., p. 90.) 

Macy,5 Joseph, w. Nov., 1757, Mary Starbuck, dau. William 
Starbuck and Anna (Folger). (Ibid., p. 127.) 

Macy,5 Henry, m. 1st, Jan. 31, 1760, Sarah Swain, dau. Caleb 
Swain and Margaret (Paddack) ; 2d, March 24, 1791, Elizabeth 
Coffin (widow of Benjamin), and dau. Daniel Hussey and Sarah 
(Gorham). (Ibid., p. 128.) 

Macy,5 Paul, m. 1st, Nov., 1761, Bethiah Macy, dau. John 
Macy and Eunice (Coleman); 2d, Jan. 26, 1817, Deborah Cogges- 
hall, dau. Job Coggeshall and Deborah (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 131.) 

Macy ,5 Enoch, m. Oct., 1763, Anna Macy, dau. David Macy and 
Dinah (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 132.) 



Children of Robert Macy (1710-1771) and Abigail (Barn- 
ard). Ibid., pp. 92, 93. 

Macy,5 Nathaniel, m. Jan., 1761, Hepzibeth Macy, dau. Zaccheus 
Macy and Hepzibeth (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 131.) 

Macy,5 Lydia, m. Dec, 1751, Abishai Gardner, son of Robert 
Gardner and Jedidah (Folger). (Ibid., p. 92.) 

Macy,5 Elizabeth, m. 1st, Dec, 1762, Alexander Mooers, son 
Thomas Mooers and Mary (Stratton) ; 2d, William Coffin, son 
Benjamin Coffin and Jedidah (Hussey) (William Coffin's third 
wife). (Ibid., p. 92.) 

Macy,5 Judith, m. Aug., 1758, Benjamin Stratton, son Caleb 
Stratton and Lois (Oder). (Ibid., p. 93.) 

Macy,5 Benjamin, unm. 



Appendix. 283 

Macy,5 Eobert, m. 1st, March 2, 1772, Anna Jones, dau. Silas 
Jones and Anna (Heath) ; 2d, Sept. 13, 1798, Phebe Jenkins, dau. 
Joseph Jenkins and Ruth (Clark). (Ibid., p. 135.) 

Macy,5 John,* m. 1st, March 3, 1768, Bethiah Cartwright, dau. 
Hezediah Cartwright and Abigail (Brown) ; 2d, March 5, 1794, 
Phebe Macy, dau. Abraham Macy and Priscilla (Bunker). (Ibid., 
p. 136.) 

Macy ,5 Deborah, m. Dec, 1769, Jonathan Cartwright, son Hezi- 
diah Cartwright and Abigail (Brown). (Ibid., p. 93.) 

Macy,5 Abigail, m. Thomas Butts. (Ibid., p. 93.) 

Macy,5 Mary, unm. 

Macy,'- Eunice, m. Francis Bunker, son Shubael Bunker and 
Lydia (Paddack). (Ibid., p. 93.) 

Macy,f> Benjamin, unm. 

Childken of Francis Macy (1715-1793) and Judith Coffin. 
Ibid., pp. 93, 94. 

Macy,"' Love, m. Dec, 1758, James Cartwright, son Hezidiah 
Cartwright and Abigail (Brown). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

Macy ,5 Reuben, m. 1st, April, 1767, Anna Barnard, dau. Robert 
Barnard and Hepzabeth (Coffin) ; 2d, Judith Myrick (widow of 
Jethro Myrick), dau. Thomas Jenkins and Judith (Folger). 
(Ibid., p. 138.) 

Macy ,5 Phebe, m. Jan., 1763, Benjamin Hussey, son John Hus- 
sey and Jedidah (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

Macy ,5 Seth, unm. 

Macy ,5 Francis, m. 1st, Hannah Mackrell, from Pool, England 
(married in London) ; 2d, June, 1798, Elizabeth Brown, dau. 
Joseph Brown and Mary (Ellis). (Ibid., p. 142.) 

Macy,5 Judith, m. Dec, 1772, Benjamin Coffin, son Benjamin 
Coffin and Rebecca (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

Macy,'"' Anna, m. Oct., 1774, Tristram Jenkins, son Peter Jen- 
kins and Abigail (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

* John Macy. son of Robert Macy, of the fifth genera- 
tion from Thomas Maey,i signed his last will when he was 
eighty-eight years old, and had nineteen children. 

The Macy family was a close corporation for many years. Up 
to 1800 very few surnames appear, excepting such as may be 
classed among orthodox Nantucket names. Upon these many 
changes were rung. Since that date record of intermarriages with 
many other families may be found. 



284 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Maey,5 Ruth, m. Obediah Folger, son Barzillai Folger and 
Phebe (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

Macy,5 Deborah, unm. 

Maey,3 Lydia, unm. 

Macy,5 Lydia, m. July, 1784, Edward Starbuck, son Edward 
Starbuck and Damaris (Worth). (Ibid., p. 94.) 

Children of Nathaniel Macy (1719-1783) and Abigail Pink- 
ham. Ibid., pp. 94, 95. 

Macy ,5 Shubael, m. Dec, 1761, Eunice Gardner, dau. Robert 
Gardner and Jedidah (Folger). (Ibid., p. 143.) 

Macy,5 Tristram, m. 176-5, Miriam Barnard, dau. William 
Barnard and Mary (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 144.) 

Macy,5 George, m. Dee. 28, 1769, Margaret Paddaek, dau. Paul 
Paddack and Anna (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 145.) 

Macy ,5 Deborahj unm. 

Macy,5 Nathaniel, Jr., m. 1st, Elizabeth Broch, dau. William 
Broch and Elizabeth ( ) ; 2d, Mercy Dunham, dau. Jethro Dun- 
ham and Mercy ( ). (Ibid., p. 145.) 

Macy,5 Eunice, m. Solomon Coffin, son Zephaniah Coffin and 
Abigail (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 95.) 

Macy ,5 Peter, m. Nov., 1781, Sarah Folger, dau. Timothy Fol- 
ger and Abial (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 14G.) 

Macy ,5 Phebe, m. 1st, 1778, Paul Barnard, son William Barn- 
ard and Mary (Coffin) ; 2d, Paul Worth, son John Worth and 
Mary (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 95.) 

Macy,5 Elizabeth, m. 1787, Barzillai Macy, son Caleb Macy and 
Judith (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 95.) 

Macy ,5 Thomas, unm. 

Macy ,5 Abishai, m. July 19, 1794, Phebe Worth, dau. Andrew 
Worth and Judith (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 147.) 

Children of Zaccheus Macy (1713-1797) and Hepzibah 
Gardner. Ibid., pp. 95, 96. 

Macy ,5 Mary, m. Jan., 1753, John Ray, son Samuel Ray and 
Mary (Fullerton). (Ibid., p. 96.) 

Macy ,5 Hannah, m. July, 1756, Reuben Swain, son Stephen 
Swain and Eleanor (Ellis). (Ibid., p. 96.) 

Macy,5 Phebe, m. 1756, William Stanton, son Samuel Stanton 
and Sarah (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 96.) 



Appendix. 285 

Maej,^ Eichard, m. Aug., 1759, Miriam Coffin, dau. Zephaniah 
Coffin and Abigail (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 14S.) 

Macy,5 Hepzibeth, m. Nathaniel Macy, son Kobert Maey and 
Abigail (Barnard). (Ibid., p. 96.) 

Macy,5 Priscilla, m. Enoch Ray, son Samuel Ray and Mary 
(Fullerton). (Ibid., p. 96.) 

Maey ,6 David^ unm. 

Macy,o Ruth, m. Aug., 1768, Thomas Barnard, son Thomas 
Barnard and Sarah (Hoag). (Ibid., p. 96.) 

Maey,5 Abishaij unm. 

Macy,5 Deborah, m. Daniel Ray, son Samuel Ray and Elizabeth 
(Coleman). (Iljid., p. 96.) 

Macy,5 Lydia, unm. 

Maey ,5 Latham, m. Oct. 2d, 1777, Lydia Russell, dau. John 
Russell and Ruth (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 149.) 

Maey ,6 Jemima, unm. 

Macy,5 Samuel, unm. 



Children of Abraham Macy (1715-1746) and Anna Worth. 
Ibid., p. 109. 

MacyjB Abraham, m. Dec. 3, 1761, Priscilla Bunker, dau. 
Samuel Bunker and Priscilla Coleman. (Ibid., p. 149.) 

Macy ,5 , tmm. 

Macy ,5 Anna, m. Oct., 1761, Edward Allen, son Ebenezer Allen 
and Christiana (Heath). (Ibid., p. 109.) 

Macy,6 Reuben, w. Ist, Dec. 31, 1767, Elizabeth Bunker, dau. 
Samuel Bunker and Priscilla (Coleman) ; 2d, Sept. 21, 1774, Ruth 
Howard, dau. Edward Howard and Phebe (Hart). (Ibid., p. 153.) 



Children or Caleb Mact (1719-1798) and Judith Gardner. 
Ibid., p. 110. 

MacyjB Keziah, unm. 

Macy ,5 Elisha, m. 1774, Phebe Gardner, dau. Jonathan Gard- 
ner and Miriam (Worth). (Ibid., p. 154.) 

Macy ,6 Sylvanus, m. July 3, 1779, Anna Pinkham, dau. Daniel 
Pinkham and Eunice (Jenkins). (Ibid., p. 155.) 

Macy ,5 Barzillai, m. Elizabeth Macy, dau. Nathaniel Macy and 
Abigail (Pinkham). (Ibid., p. 156.) 



286 Early Selllers of Naniucl-et. 

Macy,5 Obed, m. Feb. 2, 1786, Abigail Pinkham, dau. Daniel 
Pinkham and Eunice (Jenkins). (Ibid., p. 157.) 

Maey,5 Caleb, uiim. 

Macy,5 Judith, uiim. 

Maey,B Keziah, unm. 

MaeyjO Ruth, m. Nov. 9, 1796, Job Chase, Bon Benjamin Chase 
and Martha ( ). (Ibid., p. 110.) 



Children of Stephen Macy (1741-1822) and Mercy Allen. 
Ibid., pp. Ill, 112. 

Macy ,8 Stephen, Jr., m. Jan., 1784, Phebe Swain, dau. David 
Swain and Martha (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 159.) 

Macy ,6 Edmund, m. Jan. 1, 1790, Susanna Coleman, dau. Seth 
Coleman and Deborah (Swain). (Ibid., p. 159.) 

Macy ,6 Solomon, m. Nov., 1790, Lydia Coleman, dau. Nathaniel 
Coleman and Hepzibeth (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 160.) 

Macy," Job, m. Dec, 1795, Deborah Gardner, dau. Prince Gard- 
ner and Deborah (Barnard). (Ibid., p. 161.) 

Macy,« Hepzibah, m. Oct., 1794, Abraham Coleman, son Na- 
thaniel Coleman and Hepzibeth (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 112.) 

Macy ,8 David, m. 1st, 1804, Susan Stubbs; 2d, May, 1808, Sally 
Stubbs, daughters James Stubbs and Eebecca Ellis. (Ibid., p. 
162.) 

Note. — Through five generations the marriages of this family 
are here given complete; after that time so many of the name 
went to Hudson, N. Y., North Carolina, and thence to Indiana 
and Ohio that only such as seem to have been closely asso- 
ciated with Nantucket are given, and no mention is made of 
unmarried children after the fifth generation. 

Note. — Stephen was a favorite name in the Macy family, and 
leads to some confusion: 

Macy ,6 Stephen, son of Stephen,^ David,4 m. Jan. 1784, Phebe 
Swain, dau. David Swain and Martha Hussey. (Ibid., p. 159.) 

Macy,c Stephen, son John,-'' John,* John,3 John,2 Thomas,i m. 
Mary Gardner. (Ibid., p. 165.) 

Macy.fi Steplien, son David,"- David,* John,3 John,2 Thomas,i m. 
Sarah Baldwin. (Ibid., p. 103.) 



Appendix. 287 

Children of Jonathan Mact (1750-1816) and Rose Pinkham. 
Ibid, pp. 114, 115. 

Macy,6 Ann, m. Oct., 1801, Peleg Slocum Folger, son George 
Folger and Eebecca (Howland). (Ibid., p. 115.) 

Macy,6 Avis, m. Feb., 1812, Charles Barney, son Daniel Barney 
and Lydia (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 115.) 

Maey,6 Josiah, m. Feb. 6, 1805, Lydia Hussey, dau. Zaccheus 
Hussey and Lydia Folger). (Ibid., p. 170.) 

Macy,6 Robert, m. Dec. 16, 1821, Mary B. Coffin, dau. Shubael 
Coffin and Priscilla (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 186.) 

MacyjO Eliza, m. Joseph Havens, of Canada. (Ibid., p. 115.) 

Son op Barnabas Macy (1752-1802) and Abial Clasby. Ibid, 

p. 117. 

Macy,c George, m. May 10, 1815, Eunice Easton, dau. Pelcg 
Easton and Eunice (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 187.) 

Children of Peleg Macy (17C0-1838) and Sarah Starbuck. 
Ibid, pp. 117, 118. 

Macy,« Eunice, m. Simeon Brewer, son Daniel Brewer and Su- 
sanna Breed. (Ibid., p. 118.) 

Macy ,6 Peleg, m. 1st, Feb. 8, 1809, Lucretia Folger, dau. Tris- 
tram Folger and Rhoda (Hussey); 2d, Nov. 3, 1833, Lydia Jen- 
kins (widow Reuben Jenkins), and dau. Tristram Folger and 
Rhoda (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 188.) 

Macy,o Sarah, m. March 8, 1810, George Easton, son Peleg and 
Eunice (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 118.) 

Macy,« John W., m. Jan. 1, 1812, Sallie Swain, dau. Thoma.s 
Swain and Deborah (Cartwright). (Ibid., p. 188.) 

Macy ,6 Rebecca, m. Jan. 1826, Benjamin Knowles, son William 
Knowles and Avis ( ). (Ibid., p. 118.) 

Macy ,8 Mary, m. May 4, 1820, William Watson, son Joel Wat- 
son and Elizabeth (Skinner). (Ibid., p. 118.) 

Macy ,6 Charles, m. Jan. 29, 1826, Mary Jenkins, dau. William 
Jenkins and Deborah (Russell). (Ibid., p. 191.) 

Macy ,6 Josiah, m. 1st, Sept., 1825, Eliza Swain, dau. Peleg Swain 
and Priscilla (Barrett); 2d, Oct. 7, 1866, Caroline Meader, dau. 
Thomas Meader and Deborah (Burnell). (Ibid., p. 192.) 



288 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Macy,« Gorham, m. Dec. 9, 1813, Lucretia Clark, dau. Isaiah 
Clark and Love (Bunker). (Ibid., p. 189.) 

Macy,6 Edward, w., 1st, Nov. 1, 1815, Eliza Swain, dau. Thomas 
Swain and Deborah (Cartwright) ; 2d, Jan. 2, 1820, Eunice A. 
Hallett, dau. Thomas Hallett and Rachel ( ). (Ibid., p. 190.) 

Children of Samuel Macy (1765-1838) and first wife, Lydia 
FOLGER. Ibid., pp. 119, 120. 

Macy,fi Rebecca, m. Henry Dingman. (Ibid., p. 119.) 

Macy,6 Elizabeth, m. July, 1811, J. Franklin Coleman, son Obed 
Coleman and Elizabeth (Swain). (Ibid., p. 120.) 

Macy,o Judith, m. 1826, Stephen Swift, of Dartmouth. (Ibid., 
p. 120.) 

Macy ,6 Hannah, m. Giddeon Swain, son Jonathan Swain and 
Rachel (Fish). (Ibid., p. 120.) 

Children of William Macy^ Jr. (1751-1814) and first wife, 
Anna Hussey. Ibid., pp. 120, 121. 

Macy ,6 Anna, m. 1765, Moses Mitchell, son of Jethro Mitchell 
and Rachel (Hussey). (Ibid., p. 121.) 

Macy,8 Mary, m. 1801, Hezikiah Barnard, son Nathaniel Bar- 
nard and Margaret (Swain). (Ibid., p. 121.) . 

Macy,6 Eliza, m., 1st, 1803, Allen Howland, son Cornelius How- 
land and ; 2d, Peter Barney, son Benjamin Barney and 

Jemima (Jenkins). (Ibid., p. 121.) 

Macy ,6 William W., m., 1st, Jan., 1807, Phebe Starbuck, dau. 
Edward Starbuck and Lydia (Macy) ; 2d, 1834, Miriam P. H. 
Houghton, dau. Abel Houghton, of Lynn, Mass. (Ibid., p. 194.) 

Macy ,6 Thomas W., m. Sept. 28, 1815, Lydia B. Townsend, dau. 
Thomas Townsend and Phebe (Baxter). (Ibid., p. 195.) 

Macy,« James, m. Sept. 30, 1817, Eliza Inott, dau. Robert Inott 
and Judith Folger. (Ibid., p. 196.) 

Children of Sylvanus Macy (1756-1813) and first wife, 
Dinah Bunker. Ibidj p. 124. 
Macy,« Dinah, m. Jan. 30, 1805, Paul Macy, son Sylvanus Macy 

and Anna (Pinkham). (Ibid., p. 124.) 
Macy,c Daniel, m. Rebecca Smith, of Boston. (Ibid., p. 199.) 
Macy ,6 Jethro, m., 1st, Aug. 30, 1812, Lydia Ray, dau. David 

Ray and Anna (Coggeshall) ; 2d, Dec, 1819, Deborah Gorham, 

dau. James Gorham and Parnal (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 200.) 



Appendix. 289 

Maey,6 William Gayer, m., 1st, Feb., 1818, Phebe Clasby, dau. 
Lot Clasby and Elizabeth (Coffin) ; 2d, Emeline (widow of 
Thomas Clasby), and dau. William Chase and Merab (Gardner), 
(Ibid., p. 200.) 

Daughter of Henry Macy and first wife, Sarah Swain. 
Ibid., pp. 128, 129. 

Macy,« Susanna, m. 1785 Shubael Swain, son Reuben Swain and 
Hannah (Macy). (Ibid., p. 129.) 

Daughter of Francis Macy (1750-1817) and Hannah Mack- 
RELL. Ibid, p. 142. 

Macy,« Hannah Mackrell, m. April 9, 1807, Oliver C. Gardner, 
son Latham Gardner and Priscilla (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 142.) 

Daughters of Shubael Macy (1742-1812) and Eunice Gard- 
ner. Ibid, pp. 143, 144. 

Maey,8 Anna, m. Aug. 28, 1797, Thomas Ray, son Daniel Ray 
and Deborah (Macy). (Ibid., p. 143.) 

Macy ,6 Merab, m. Daniel Coffin, son Nathaniel Coffin and Pris- 
cilla (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 144.) 

Macy ,6 Peggy, m. Frederick Folger, son Charles Folger and 
Lydia (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 144.) 

Children of Richard Macy (1742-1814) and Miriam Coffin. 
Ibid., p. 148. 

Macy,« Priscilla, m. March 27, 1794, Paul Ray, son John Ray 
and Mary (Macy). (Ibid., p. 148.) 

Macy ,6 Miriam, m. July 17, 1804, George Prince, of Sweden. 
(Ibid., p. 148.) 

Macy,c Job. m. July 17, 1791, Anna Way, dau. Seth Way and 
Deborah (Chadwick). (Ibid., p. 235.) 

Children of Latham Macy (1759-1793) and Lydia Russell. 
Ibid., p. 149. 

Macy ,6 Simeon, m. Oct. 31, 1799, Phebe Allen, dau. Daniel Al- 
len and Phebe (Folger). (Ibid., p. 236.) 

Macy,« Deborah, m. Jan., 1800, Moses Joy, son David Joy and 
Phebe (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 149.) 



290 Uai-hj Seiilers of Nantucket. 

Childken of Sylvanus Macy (1756-1833) and Anna Pinkham. 
Ibid., pp. 155, 156. 

Macy,6 Paul, m. Jan. 30, 1805, Dinah Macy, dau. Sylvanus 
Macy and Dinah (Bunker). (Ibid., p. 244.) 

Macy ,6 Eunice, m. Nov., 1804, Gideon Folger, son of Walter 
Folger and Elizabeth (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 155.) 

Macy,8 John, m. Aug. 7, 1808, Eliza Barnard (widow Thomas 

Barnard and dau. Andrew Myrick and Abiel ( ). (Ibid., p. 

245.) 

Macy,6 Rachel, m. March, 1810, Roland Hussey, son John Hus- 
sey and Lydia (Barnard). (Ibid., p. 155.) 

Macy ,6 Barzillai, m. Mary Hussey, dau. John Hussey and Lydia 
(Barnard). (Ibid., p. 246.) 

Macy ,6 Lydia, m., 1st, March, 1819, Robert Bunker, son Bar- 
nabas Bunker and Lydia (Gardner) ; 2d, Jan., 1822, Frederick 
C. Macy, son Thomas Macy and Phebe (Bunker). (Ibid., p. 156.) 

Children of Obed Macy (1762-1844) and Abigail Pinkham. 
Ibid., p. 157. 

Macy ,6 Thomas,* m. 1st, April 7, 1808, Elizabeth Swain, dau. 
Tristram Swain and Rachel (Bunker); 2d, Sept. 9, 1824, Eunice 
Coffin, dau. Zenas Coffin and Abial (Gardner); 3d, Oct. 22, 1843, 
Christina Gale (widow of Edmund Gale), dau. Samuel Stubbs 
and Christina (Worth). (Ibid., p. 246.) 

Macy,6 Reuben, m. March 3, 1816, Hannah Mitchell, dau. Peleg 
Mitchell, Sr., and Lydia (Cartwright). (Ibid., p. 248.) 

Maey,6 Mary, umii. 

Macy,6 Peter, m. 1st, March 31, 1817, Ann Swain, dau. Gilbert 
Swain and Margaret (Barnard) ; 2d, Nov. 6, 1828, Elizabeth Gard- 
ner, dau. Jared Gardner and Eunice (Coffin). (Ibid., p. 249.) 

Macy,6 Elizabeth, unm. 

Macy,<5 Elizabeth, m. April 3, 1817, Edmund W. Macy, son Ed- 
mund Macy and Susanna (Coleman). (Ibid., p. 157.) 

Macy, 6 Mary, unm. 

* Isaac Macy '^ (son of Thomas,^ Obed,5) married Nov. 6, 1839, 
Ann Eliza Macy,^ dau. of Josiah Macy s and Lydia (Hussey). 
Philip Macy, another son of Thomas Macy, married Feb. 23, 
1843, Susan C. Wilson, dau. John Wilson and Lydia (Gibbs). 
(Ibid., pp. 373, 374.) 



Appendix. 391 

Macy,6 Daniel P., m. Aug. 18, 1825, Alice Swain, dau. Hezekiah 
Swain and Lydia (Fish). (Ibid., p. 250.) 

Macy,6 Eunice, m. Nov. 4, 1824, David Mitchell, son James 
Mitchell and Elizabeth (Anthony). (Ibid., p. 157.) 

Macy,6 Judith, unm. 



Son of Peter Macy and Sarah Folger. Ibid., pp. 146, 147. 

Macy,6 Charles, m. Oct. 7, 1813, Anna Bunker, dau. Barnabas 
Bunker and Lydia (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 233.) 



Son of Abraham Macy and Priscilla Bunker. Ibid., p. 150. 

Macy,6 Abraham, m. 1800, Elizabeth Coleman, dau. Elihu Cole- 
man and Elizabeth (Macy). (Ibid., p. 238.) 



Children of Abraham Macy and Elizabeth Coleman. 

Macy,7 Aaron C.,* m. 1st, Oct. 2, 1823, Sarah Hull Clapp; 2d, 
April 17, 1840, Jane Williamson. (Ibid., p. 359.) 

Macy,7 Eebecca. 

Macy,T George G. 

Macy,7 Catharine, m. Oct. 6, 1833, Townsend Powell. (Ibid., p. 
239.) 

Macy ,7 Rhoda. 



Daughter of Charles Macy and Anna Bunker. 

Macy ,7 Lucretia F., m. March 15, 1836, Robert F. Gardner, son 
Benjamin Gardner and Rachel (Folger). (Ibid., p. 233.) 



Daughters of Stephen Macy, Jr. (1761-1825) and Phebe 
Swain. Ibid., p. 159. 

Macy,''' Lydia, m. Aug. 16, 1803, John Munroe. (Ibid., p. 159.) 
Macy, 7 Susan, m. Thomas Starbuck. (Ibid., p. 159.) 

* This family lived at Ghent, New York. 



292 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

CuiLDKEN OF Edmi'nd Macy (1766, lost at sea about 1809) and 
Susanna Coleman. Ibid., pp. 159, 160. 

Macy ,7 Sarah, w. June 28, 1811, Philip H. Folger, son George 
Folger and Rebecca (Slooum). (Ibid., p. 160.) 

Maey,7 Edmund W., m. 1817 Elizabeth Macy, dau. Obed Macy 
and Abigail (Pinkham). (Ibid., p. 251.) 

Macy ,7 Elizabeth, m. Dec. 4, 1817, Alexander G. Hussey, son 
Paul Hussey and Judith (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 160.) 

Macy ,7 James E., m. July 4, 1833, Mary Ann L. Emery, dau. 
George Emery and Elizabeth (Pierce). (Ibid., p. 252.) 

Children of Solomon Macy (1768-1855) and Ltdia Coleman. 
Ibid., p. 160. 

Maey,7 Eunice, m. March 6, 1811, Obed Marshall, son Obed 
Marshall and Susanna (Burnell). (Ibid., p. 160.) 

Macy,7 George, m. Aug. 1, 1830, Eliza Giflford, dau. Prince 
Gifford and Hannah (Chadwick). (Ibid., p. 252.) 

Macy ,7 Lydia, m. 1817, William Bartlett, son Thomas Bart- 
lett and Mehitable (Rhodes). (Ibid., p. 160.) 

Children of Job Macy (1770-1852) (son of Stephen and 
Mercy Allen) and Deborah Gardner. Ibid., p. 161. 

Macy,7 Lydia, m. Jan. 27, 1820, Gorham Hussey, son George 
Gorham Hussey and Lydia (Chase). (Ibid., p. 161.) 

Macy ,7 Prince G., ft. 1796, d. 1827. (Lost at sea.) 

Macy ,7 Hepzibeth, m. July 14, 1825, Robert B. Chase, son Ste- 
phen Chase and Peggy (Barnard). (Ibid., p. 161.) 

Macy,7 Joseph, m. Aug. 18, 1825, Susan Hussey, dau. George 
Gorham Hussey and Lydia (Chase). (Ibid., p. 253.) 

Macy ,7 Seth, m. Tirzah Gibbs (widow of Seth Gibbs), dau. Sol- 
omon Bearce and Hannah (Green). (Ibid., p. 253.) 

Macy ,7 Susan, m. April 16, 1835, William C. Gifford, son Robert 
Gifford and Ruth (Starbuck). (Ibid., p. 161.) 

Macy ,7 Charles G., m. Sept. 22, 1839, Margaret B. Swain, dau. 
Micajah Swain and Priseilla (Barrett). (Ibid., p. 254.) 

Macy ,7 Edmund, m. Oct. 19, 1837, Elizabeth W. Chase, dau. 
Peter Chase and Lurania ( ). (Ibid., p. 253.) 

Macy ,7 Elizabeth, m. Oct. 11, 1840, Freeman Parker, son 
Joshua Parker and Deborah (Black). (Ibid., p. 161.) 

Macy ,7 Mary, unm. 



Appendix. 293 

Children of Job Macy (1770-1850) (son of Richard Macy 

AND Miriam Coffin) and Anna Way. 

Ibid., pp. 235, 236, and Family Papers. 

Macy ,7 Alexander, m. July 3, 1817, Maria Pinkham, dau. Peter 
and Desire (Clark) Pinkham. (Ibid., pp. 353, 351.) 

Macy,7 Lydia W., m. Oct. 31, 1816, James B. Coleman, son 
Obed Coleman and Elizabeth (Swain). (Ibid., p. 235.) 

Macy ,7 Deborah W., m. Oct. 14, 1819, John Sherman, son John 
Sherman and Margaret (Ellis). (Ibid., p. 235.) 

Macy ,7 Mary, m. April 5, 1826, Caleb Folger, son Shubael Fol- 
ger and Mary (Gardner). (Ibid., p. 236.) 

Macy ,7 EHzabethj unm. 

Macy,7 Seth W.,* in. June 5, 1831, Mehitable K. Potter, dau. 
Kestcom Potter and Deborah (Doubleday). (Ibid., p. 355.) 

Macy,7 Anna W., m., 1st, Oct. 4, 1836, Frederick Gardner, son 
Hezekiah Gardner and Rebecca (Barrett) ; 2d, March 9, 1851, 
Thomas G. Folger, son Shubael Folger and Mary (Gardner). 
(Family Papers.) 



Children of John W. Macy (son of Peleg Macy and Sarah 
(Starbuck) and Sally Swain. Macy Gen., pp. 188, 189. 

Macy ,7 George W., m. Aug. 20, 1835, Lydia Percival, dau. 
Benjamin Percival and Phebe (Swift). (Ibid., p. 282.) 

Macy,7 Lucy S., m. Nov. 17, 1834, Francis Mitchell, son Samuel 
Mitchell and Hepzibeth (Joy). (Ibid., p. 189.) 



Children of Edward Macy (son of Peleg Macy) and . 

Ibid., p. 190. 

Macy ,7 Lydia S., m., 1st, Aug. 5, 1835, Alexander C. Joy, and 
2d, May 24, 1839, Reuben Joy (brothers). (Ibid., p. 191.) 

Macy ,7 Lucretia F., m. Oct. 15, 1859, James M. Bunker, son 
Reuben Bunker and Rachel (Chase). (Ibid., p. 191.) 

* Seth W. Macy, son of Job Macy and Anna (Way), was a 
man of great integrity and much respected in Newport public 
Ufe. He filled many positions of trust, from the Town Council 
to the Senate of Rhode Island. 



294 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Macy,' Eunice A., m. May 8, 1S59, Andrew W. Hussey, son Shu- 
bael Hussey and Eunice (Fitch). (Ibid., p. 381.) 

Macy ,7 Alfred, son of Peter Macy and Elizabeth (Gardner), m. 
May 2, 1857, Anne Mitchell, dau. William Mitchell and Lydia 
(Coleman). (Ibid., p. 375.) 

Macy,« George Nelson, son of George Wendall Macy and Lydia 
(Percival), m. Mary Macy Hayden, dau. George C. Hayden and 
Phebe (Swain). George Nelson Macy served during the Civil 
War and acquired the rank of General. (Ibid., pp. 282-381.) 

Macy,8 Alexander, Jr., son Alexander,^ Job,6 and Anna Way, 
m. Dec. 5, 1841, Lydia S. Gardner, dau. Oliver C. Gardner and 
Hannah M. (Macye), dau. Francis.s (Ibid., p. 422.) 

Oliver C. Gardner's house on Vestal Street may well be reck- 
oned one of the termini of the underground railroad; every child 
of Nantucket fifty years ago was familiar with Arthur and 
Lucy Cooper, fugitive slaves, then bowed with age; their story 
never failed to awaken interest. To the home of Mr. Gardner 
they found their way, and were cleverly tracked by their pur- 
suers; not less clever was the man who sheltered them, adroitly 
engaging in conversation at his front door those who sought the 
poor, aged colored man and wife, until the couple had been dis- 
guised and helped to escape by the back door. 

When this was accomplished Mr. Gardner invited the pur- 
suers to search the premises, but the slaves were well out of 
the way and were sheltered by other friends; they lived many 
years on Nantucket. 

Miss Anna Gardner, daughter of Oliver C. Gardner and Hannah 
M. (Macy), has recently died at Nantucket at an advanced age. 

The first Anti-Slavery Convention held on the island in the 
summer of 1841 was called together by her. 

At this gathering were present William Lloyd Garrison, who, 
on the evening of October 16, 1830, had opened his warfare on 
slavery, and Rev. Samuel May, who, on the Sunday following 
Mr. Garrison's speech, in the Unitarian Church on Summer 
Street, Boston, preached the first sermon delivered under the 
" new crusade." 

Frederick Douglass also was present at the meeting convened 
by Miss Gardner, and at that time made his first speech in a 
cause for which in later years he labored bo earnestly. 



Appendix. 295 

Mitchell,! Eiehard, m. Mary Wood, (W. C. Folger MSS. and 
Mitchell Family Records. 

Mitcheil,2 Kichard, ?n. 1708 Elizabeth Tripp, dau. James Tripp. 
(Ibid.) 

JlitchelljS Richard, m. Mary Starbuck, dau. Jethro Starbuck 
and Dorcas Gayer. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Book I., p. 54, 
1731.) 



Children * of Richard Mitchells and Mary Starbuck. 

Mitchell,* Elizabeth, 6. 1732, d. young. 

Mitchell,* Richard, ft. Sept. 27, 1735, d. 1819, «?. Hepzibeth Bar- 
nard, dau. Robert Barnard and Hepzibeth . (1755, Nantucket 

Friends' Records, Book I., p. 233.) 

Mitchell,* Elizabeth, ft. Aug. 2, 1737, d. 1761, TO. Josiah Barker, 
son of Samuel Barker and Bethiah Folger. (Family Papers.) 

Mitchell,* Jethro, 6. March 18, 1739, d. 1817, m. Rachel Hussey, 

dau. Daniel Hussey and Sarah . (1759, Friends' Records, Bk. 

II., p. 53.) 

Mitchell,* Joseph, 6. April 7, 1741, d. 1826, m. 3, 2, 1763, 
1st, Mary Swain, dau. Richard Swain (Friends' Records, Bk. II., 
p. 95); 2d, Mary Calender (Family Papers). 

Mitchell,* Mary, ft. May 10, 1743, d. 1782, m. Shubael Coffin, 

son of Zaccheus Coffin and Mary . (17G3, Friends' Records, 

Bk. II., p. 93.) 

Mitchell,* William, 6. Oct. 1, 1745, to. Oct. 29, 1767, Hannah 
Rodman. (Rodman Family.) 

Mitchell,* Eunice, 6. Oct. 7, 1749, to. Richard Bunker, son of 
Thomas Bunker and Anna Swain. (1768, Friends' Records, Bk. 
II., p. 176.) 

Mitchell,* Benjamin, ft. Oct. 10, 1752, lost at sea 1771. 

Mitchell,* James, ft. Nov. 11, 1755, to. Elizabeth Barnard, dau. 
Abisha Barnard and Elizh . (Family Papers.) 



* The following note is found with this family record : " There 
must have been three others not recorded." 



296 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Mitchell,* Peleg, h. Feb. 9, 1759, d. 1831, m. 12, 30, 1779, Lydia 
Cartwright (dau. James Cartwright and Love Macy), ft. Jan. 10, 
1762, d. Feb. 11, 1833. (Friends' Records, Nantucket.) 



Children of Richard Mitchell* and Hepzibah Barnard. 

Mitchell,5 Elizabeth, m. Edward Tillett Emmet. (Friends' 
Records, Bk. II., p. 220.) 

Mitchell,5 Paul, m. Meraba Coffin, dau. Alexander Coffin and 
Eunice (Bunker). (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. II., p. 259.) 

Mitchell,^ Christopher, /;.•. Jemima Folger. (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. I., p. 112.) 

Mitchell,5 Laban, m. Elizabeth Freeborn. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, Bk. II., p. 330.) 

Mitchell,5 Benjamin. 

Mitcliell,5 David, m. Eunice Gardner, dau. and Ruth Gard- 
ner. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. II., p. 378.) 



Children of Jethro Mitchell and Rachel Hussey. 

Mitchell,5 Daniel, h. 1760, d. 1760. (Friends' Records.) 

Mitchell,5 Obed., m. Lydia Gardner, dau. Paul Gardner and 
Rachel (Starbuck). (Ibid.) 

Mitchell,5 Sarah, ft. 1765, d. 1793. (Ibid.) 

Mitchell,5 Silvanus, h. 1768, d. 1773. (Ibid. 

Mitehell,5 Elihu, ft. 1772, d. 1772. (Ibid.) 

Mitchell,5 David, 6. 1773, d. 1773. (Ibid.) 

Mitchell,5 Moses. (Ibid.) 

Mitchell,5 Aaron. (Ibid.) 

Mitchell,5 Jethro, m. 1805, Mercy Green, Jr., dau. Thomas 
Green, of Nova Scotia. (Friends' Records, Bk. IV., p. 30.) 



Children of William Mitchell and Hannah Rodman. 
(Friends' Records and Family rapers.) 

Mitcliell,5 Joseph, m. 1779, Lydia Swain, widow Josiah Swain 
and dau. Abisha Pinkerton. Removed to New York State. 

Mitchell,^ Mary, m. Sutton. Removed to New York State. 

Mitchell.s Thomas. Removed to New York State. 



Appendix. 297 

Mitchell,5 William. Removed to New York State. 
MitchelljS Anna. Removed to New York State. 
MitchelljS Jethro. Must have been born after removal. 
Mitchell,5 Richard. Must have been born after removal. 

Children of Peleg Mitchell and Lydia Cartwright. 

MitehelljS George, 6. 1781. d. in infancy. 

Mitehell,5 Joseph, 6. 1782, drowned at sea 1805. 

Mitchell,^ George, b. 1784, m., 1st, Phebe Chase, dan. of Fran- 
cis Chase and Naomi (Nantucket Friends' Records, Book 

II., p. 429, 1807) ; 2d, Susan Barnard, dau. Thomas Barnard and 
Alice Freeborn (Friends' Records, Book III., p. 33, 1834.) 

Mitchell,5 Mary, ft. 1785, d. Oct. 9, 1857, m., 1st, Edward Hus- 
sey; 2d, William Stubbs. 

Mitehell,5 Love, b. 1787, d. 1805, unm. 

Mitchell,5 Sally, 6. 1789, d. 1805, unm. 

Mitchell,5 William, b. Dec. 20, 1791, d. April 1, 1869, m. 1812, 
Lydia Coleman, dau. Andrew Coleman. (Friends' Records, Nan- 
tucket, Book II., p. 452.) 

Mitchell,5 Hannah, b. 1794, d. April 2, 1859, m. Reuben Macy, 
son of Obed Macy and Abigail Pinkham. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 459, 
1816.) 

Mitchell,5 Lydia, b. 1798, d. Nov. 7, 1871, m. (her second cou- 
sin) Richard Mitchell, of Newport. (Ibid., Book III., p. 2, 1818.) 

Mitchell,5 Peleg, b. 1802, d. Aug. 1, 1882, m., 1st, 1822. Mary 
Ann Whi^jpey (no children) ; 2d, Aug. 3, 1837, Mary S. Russell, 
dau. Barnabas Russell and Mary Swain. (Friends' Records, Nan- 
tucket.) 

Mitchell,5 Love, 6. 1806, d. March 23, 1869, m. Isaac Brayton. 
(Nantucket Friends' Records, Book III., p. 19, 1825.) 

CiiiLDKEN OF Obed Mitchells (who was son of Jethro 
Mitchell * and Rachel Hussey) and Lydia Gardner. 

Mitchell," Rachel, m. 1st, Moses Dame; 2d, James Thornton. 

Mitchell,6 Sarah, m. 1st, George W. Coffin (Friends' Records, 
Bk. IV., p. 66); 2d, Smith Upton (Friends' Records, Bk. IV.). 

Mitchell,6 Samuel, m. 1807, 1st, Hepzibah Joy, dau. Francis and 
Jedidah Joy; 2d, Susan Alley. (Ibid., IV., p. 38.) 



298 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Mitchell,6 James, m. 1820, Lydia G. Clasby, dau. John Clasby 
and Sarah . (Ibid., III., p. 98.) 

Mit.ohell,6 Thomas, d. young. 

Mitchell,6 Obed, i». Phebe Upton. (Mitchell Family MSS.) 

Mitchel],6 Thomas, m. Lucy Swain (1812), dau. Thomas Swain 
and Deborah ( ). (Friends' Records, Bk. IV., p. 57.) 

Childeen of David Mitchells and Eunice Gardneb. 

Mitchell,6 Albert. 

Mitchell,6 Lydia, m. Thomas A. Green. 

Mitehe]l,6 Mary, m. Walter Underbill. (Friends' Records, Bk. 
IV., p. 81.) 

MitchelljC John R., m. Eliza Brock.* (Mitchell Family Papers.) 

Children of Laban Mitchell and Elizabeth Freeborn. 

Mitchell,6 Daniel, m. Eliza Hussey, dau. Tristram Hussey. 
(Friends' Records, Bk. IV., p. 48.) 

Mitchell,6 Matthew, m. 1st, Susan Swain, dau. Gilbert and Ann 
Swain; 2d, Margaret A. Johnes (Family Papers). 

Mitchell,6 MoseSj unm. 

Mitchell,6 Edwardj unm. 

MitchelljG Isaac, m., 1st, Elizabeth Gardner (Friends' Records, 
Bk. III., p. 28) ;. 2d, Mary Ann Anthony (Family Papers). 

Mitchell,6 Joseph, m., 1st, Sarah Folger, dau. Uriah Folger; 2d, 
Judith Folger, dau. Thomas A. Folger. (Family Papers.) 

Mitchell,6 Alice, unm. 

Children of Paul Mitchell and Meraba Coffin. 

Mitchell,6 Merab, m. John Brock. (Family Papers.) 

Mitchell,6 Eunice, m., 1st, Tristram Coffin; 2d, Barzillai Hussey; 
3d, Benjamin Barnard. 

Mitchell,^ Frederick, m., 1st, Eunice Russell (Friends' Records, 
Bk. II., p. 422) ; 2d, Annie Chase (widow) (Family Papers). 

Mitchell,6 George G., m. Mary Hussey, dau. Peter Hussey. 

* Parents of Walter Mitchell, Episcopal clergj-man, for a num- 
ber of years rector of St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Appendix. 399 

Mitchell,6 Richard, m. Frances Lincoln. 

Mitchell,8 Paulj unm. 

Mitchell,^ Hepzibeth,* m. 1820, 1st, George Brayton, son of 
Robert Brayton; 2d, William Hussey, son of Sylvanus Hussey. 
(Mitchell Family Papers.) 

Mitchell,6 Seth, m. sisters, 1st, Hannah Bunker; 2d, Lydia M. 
Gardner, widow of Samuel Gardner, daus. of Hezikiah Bunker. 
^Family Papers.) 

Mitchell, James, m. Ann Folger, dau. Jethro Folger and Mary 
(Starbuck). (Nantucket Friends' Records, Book I., p. 86, 1738.) 

Newhall, Estes, son Daniel Wing Xewhall and Hannah (Swift) 
NeAvhall, m. 7th mo. 4, 1793, Hepzibah Wing, dau. Paul Wing and 
Abigail (Wing). (Sandwich Friends' Records.) 

Newhall, Paul Wing, son of Estes Newhall and Hepzibah Wing, 
m. Hannah Johnson, dau. Samuel and Sarah Johnson. (Newhall 
Family Records, 1831.) 

Paddack, Zechariah, m. Deborah Sears. (Swain Family, see 
page 152.) 

Paddack, Nathaniel, m. Ann Bunker. (Probate Record, Bk. 
A i., pp. 27, 28.) 

Children of Nathaniel Paddack. 

Paddack, Deborah, m. Theophilus Pinkham. (Friends' Records, 
Bk. I., p. 43, 1728.) 

Paddack, Love, m. George Swain, son of John Swain and Ex- 
perience Folger. (Ibid., p. 48, 1729.) 

* Hepzibeth (Mitchell) (Brayton) Hussey died in California 
in 1896, aged 92 years. Elizabeth A. Brayton, dau. of Hepzibeth 
Mitchell, and her first husband, George Brayton, married John 
C. Mitchell, son of James Mitchell and Lydia (Clasby). 

The daughter of John C. Mitchell and Elizabeth (Clasby) 
married Reuben M. Swain, son of Charles A. Swain, of Nan- 
tucket, and Hussey (sister of Hannah and Rachel Hussey, 

of Mill Street). 

Rachel Hussey was a respected member of the Society of 
Friends, and earned her daily bread by spinning yarn long after 
the art was lost to others on the island. 



300 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

Paddack, Lydia, m. Jethro Coleman. (Ibid., Bk. 1., p. 58, 1731.) 

Paddack, Paul, m. Ann Coffin. (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. 
I., p. 43, July 24, 1740.) 

Paddack, Mary, m. Francis Swain. (Friends' Records, Bk. I., 
p. 80, 1736.) 

Paddack, Dinah, m. Christopher Worth. (Ibid., 1738.) 

Paddack, Priscilla, «/. William Coffin. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 101, 
1740.) 

Paddack, Daniel, m. Susanna Gorham. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, Bk. I., p. 38.) 

Paddack, Elizabeth, v). Joseph Swain, 11, 2, 1745, called Janu- 
ary. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 157.) 

Paddack, Stej^hen, vi. Eunice Coffin. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 191, 1751.) 

Paddack, Susanna, in. 1st, Matthew Gardner (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 
204, 1752) ; 2d, George Freeborn (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 149, 1767.) 

Paddack, Eunice, m. 1st, Joseph Coffin (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 10, 
1775) ; 2d, Robert Clasby (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 345, 1790.) 

Paddack, Deborah, m. George Hussey. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 25, 
1757.) 

Paddack, Barnabas, m. Abigail Gardner. (Ibid., Bk. II., p. 113, 
1764.) 

Paddack, Nathaniel, m. Deborah Pinkham (by " Bezaleel Shaw, 
Minister of the Gospel"). (Nantucket Court Records, Book I., 
p. 25, 1782.) 

Pinkham, Reuben, m. Anna Starbuck (by Jeremiah Gardner, 
justice of peace). (Nantucket Town Records, Book I., p. 68, 
1755.) 

Prence, Thomas, m. 1st, Patience Brcw.ster, dau. Elder Brews- 
ter (1624); 2d, Mary Collier, dau. William Collier (Winsor's 

History of Duxbury, p. 248, 1635) ; 3d, Freeman, widow 

Samuel Freeman (Plymouth Colonial Records, vol. i., p. 34, 1662). 

Rodman, Joseph, m. Mary Miller. (Gen. of Rodman Family, 
p. 27, 1745.) 



Appendix. 301 

Rodman, Hannah, dau. Joseph, m. William Mitchell, son Rich- 
ard and Mary (Starbuck) Mitchell. (Ibid., 1767). 

Rodman, Clark, son Joseph, m. Abigail Lawton. (Ibid., p. 39, 
1775.) 

Rodman, David, m. Joanna Mitchell. (Ibid.) 

Rodman, Thomas, m. Mary Borden. (Ibid., p. 27, 1750.) 

Rodman, Elizabeth, dau. Thomas, m. William Rotch, Jr. (Ibid,, 
p. 41, 1782.) 

Rodman, Samuel, son Thomas and Mary, m. Elizabeth Rotch. 
(Ibid., p. 39, 1780.) 

Rodman, Anna, in. Thomas Hazard. (Ibid., p. 32, 1780.) 

Rotch,i William and Hannah, from England, were at Salem, 
Mass., for a time. 

Rotch,2 Joseph, son William Rotch and Hannah ( ), of 

Salem, Mass., 6. in Salisbury, England, May 6, 1704, to. " 2l8t 
day of 12th mo. called February," 1733-34, Love Macy, dau. 
Thomas Macy and Deborah (Coffin). (Friends' Records, Nan- 
tucket, Book I., p. 69.) 

Rotch," William, son Joseph Rotch and Love Macy, m. 31st 
day of 10th month, 1754, Elizabeth Barney, dau. Benjamin 
Barney and Lydia (Starbuck). (Ibid., Book I., p. 229.) 

Children of William Rotch and Elizabeth Barney. 

" Rotch,4 William, Jr., of ' Sherborn,' * son of William Rotch 
and Elizabeth Barney, m. 17th of 7th month, 1782, Elizabeth Rod- 
man, of ' Lemister,'t in the County of Worcester, in the govern- 
ment of Massachusetts Bay, in New England," dau. Thomas 

Rodman, late of Newport, Rhode Island, and Mary ( ). (Ibid., 

Book 11., p. 285.) 

Rotch,* Elizabeth, to. Samuel Rodman, of Newport. 

Rotch,* Susanna, d. young. 

Rotch,* BenjamiUj m. Elizabeth Barker. 

Rotch,* Thomas. 

Rotch,* I^ydia. 

Rotch,* Mary. 

* Nantucket. 
t Leominster. 



302 Early Settlers of NantucM. 

Eotch, Sarah, dau. of William Rotch, Jr., and Elizabeth Rod- 
man, OT. James Arnold, of Providence, R. I.; d. at New Bedford 
May 9, 1860. (Gen. of Rodman Family, p. 72, Oct. 29, 1807.) 

Russell,! Daniel, m. Deborah Macy. (Macy Genealogy, pp. C7. 
68.) 

Russell,2 John, 1st, m. Ruth Starbuck. (Nantucket Friends' 
Records, Book I., p. 60, 1731-32.) 

Eussell,3 John, 2d, m. Hepzibah Coleman. (Ibid., 1777.) 

Russell,4 Barnabas, m. Mary Swain. (Ibid., 1811.) 

Russell,2 Jonathan, m. Patience Swain. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Russell, Sylvanus, m. Anna Coffin. (Ibid.) 

Russell, Uriah, m. Lydia Swain. (Ibid.) 

Sears, Richard, m. Dorothy Thatcher. (Swain Family, see p. 
153.) 

Stanton, Samuel, son John and Elizabeth Stanton, m. Sarah 
Coffin, dau. Samuel and Miriam Coffin. (Nantucket Friends' Rec- 
ords, Book I., p. 68, 1733-34.) 

Stanton, Giles E., m. Hannah Beebe. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, Book I., p. 163, 1805.) 

Stanton, Benjamin, m. Abigail Macy. (See Macy Family, p. 
83, 1774.) 

Starbuck, Edward, m. Katharine Reynolds. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg., vol. viii., p. 68.) 

Children of Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds. 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, m. Mary Coffin. (See Coffin Family, p. 

252.) 
Starbuck, Jethro, it>im. 
Starbuck, Sarah, m. 1st, William Story, d. 1658 (N. E. Hist. 

and Gen. Reg., vol. viii., p. 129, 1658) ; 2d, Joseph Austin, d. 

1063 (W. C. Folger MSS.) ; 3d, Humphrey Varney, as second wife 

(1664). 
Starbuck, Dorcas, m. William Gayer. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 
Starbuck, Abigail, v). Peter Coffin. (See Coffin Family, p. 2.52.) 
Starbuck, Esther, tn. Humphrey Varney. (W. C. Folger 

MSS.) 



Appendix. 303 

Children of Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., and Mary Coffin. 

Starbuck, Mary, m. James Gardner, son Richard Gardner. 
(" Ye Coffin Family," by Allen Coffin, LL.B., pp. 57, 58.) 

Starbuck, Elizabeth, m. 1st, Peter Coffin, Jr. (N. E. Hist, and 
Gen. Reg., 1682) ; 2d, Nathaniel Barnard, Jr. (Nantucket Pro- 
bate Records, Bk. A. I., pp. 22, 23.) 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, Jr., m. Dinah Coffin. (See Coffin Family, 
p. 253, 1690.) 

Starbuck, Jethro, m. Dorcas Gayer. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords, Bk. I., p. 7, 1694.) 

Starbuck, Eunice, m. George Gardner, son of John Gardner. 
(W. C. Folger MSS.) 

Starbuck, Priseilla, m. John Coleman, 2d, grandson Thomas 
Coleman.i (Ibid.) 

Starbuck, Hepzibah, m. Thomas Hathaway, of Dartmouth, 
Massachuetts. (W. C. Folger MSS.) 



Children of Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., and Dinah Coffin. 

Starbuck, Mary, m. Jethro Folger, 12. 1. called Feb. 1710-11. 
(Fiiends' Records, Bk. I., p. 6.) 

Starbuck, Paul, m. 1st, Ann Tibbets (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 13, 1718) ; 
2d, 1737, Keziah Gardner, widow Jethro (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 85); 3d, 
Elizabeth Coffin, widow Daniel (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 193, 1751). 

Starbuck, Priseilla, m. Shubael Coffin. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 11, 1717.) 

Starbuck, Elizabeth, m. George Hussey. (Ibid., Bk. I., p. 10, 
1717.) 

Starbuck, Hepzibah, m. Sylvanus Hussey, Sr. (Ibid., Bk. I., 
p. 25.) 

Starbuck, Abigail, m. 1st, Thomas Howe (Town Records, 1723) ; 
2d, John Way (Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 104, 1741). 

Starbuck, Benjamin, in. Dinah Coffin, dau. Stephen Coffin, Jr. 
(Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 53, 1730.) 

Starbuck, Tristram, son Nathaniel, Jr., and Dinah (Coffin) 
Starbuck, m. Deborah Coffin, dau. Samuel and Miriam Coffin. 
(Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 49, 1729.) 

Starbuck, Ruth, m. John Russell. (Ibid., p. 60, 1731-32.) 

Starbuck, Anna, m. Peter Barnard. (Friends' Records, Bk. I;, 
p. 66, 1733.) 



304 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

S\vain,i Eichard,* m. 1st, ; 2d, Sept. 15, 1658 (Hist, of 

Hampton, Bk. II., p. 986), Jane (Godfrey) Bunker, widow ot 
George Bunker. Jane Bunker d. 1662. (Nantucket Town Rec- 
ords.) 

Children of Richard Swain and First Wife. 

Swain,2 Francis, m. Martha . (W. C. Folger MSS., p. 61.) 

!Swain,2 William, of Hampton, New Hampshire, m. Prudence 
Marston. (Ibid.) 

Swain,2 Dorothy, m. 1st, Thomas Abbott; 2d, Edward Chapman. 
3d, Archelaus Woodman. (Ibid.) 

lSwain,2 Eli5:abeth, m. 1656, Nathaniel Wier or Weare. 
(N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., vol. xxv., p. 246.) 

Swain,2 John, m. Mary Wier or Weare. (Dow's Hist, of Hamp- 
ton.) 

Swain,2 Grace, m. Nathaniel Boulter. 

Swain,2 Nicholas, d. 1650. 

Child of Richard Swain and Jane (Godfrey) (Bunker) 

Swain. 

Swain,2 Richard, 6. in Hampton Jan. 13, 1660. 

Swain,3 John, Jr., son of John Swain and Mary Wier, m. Ex- 
perience Folger, dau. Peter Folger and Mary (Morrell). (See 
Folger Family, p. 257.) 

Swain,* John, son of John Swain, Jr., and Experience Fol- 
ger, m. Jan. 6, 1711-12, Mary Swett, dau. Moses Swett and Mary 
(Hussey). (Nantucket Town Records, Bk. I., p. 9.) 

Swain,* William, Sr., son John Swain, Jr., m. 1727 (Friends' 
Records, Bk. I., p. 40), Jemima Coffin. (Family Papers.) 

* " One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families,*' p. 228, says Rich- 
ard Swain's wife Elizabeth came to America in the " Planter " 
in the April previous to his arrival on the " True Love." His 
sons, Francis and William, came in the " Rebecca," and his 
daughter Elizabeth in the " Susan and Ellen," " in care of vari- 
ous friends." 

Note. — Francis Swain went to Long Island; William remained 
at Hampton, N. H. Richard, the only child of Jane, removed to 
New Jersey, and has many descendants there. 



Appendix. 305 

Swdiii,5 William, Jr., m. Feb. 14, 1750, 1st, Lydia Gorham, dau. 
Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth (Gardner); 2d, Mary Pollard. 
(Family Papers.) 

!Swain,5 Francis, son of John Swain and Mary Swett, to. Nov. 
1, 1736, O. S., Mary Paddack, dau. Nathaniel Paddack and Ann 
Bunker. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. I., p. 80.) 

Swain,6 Francis, son Francis Swain and Mary Paddack, m. 
Jan. 29, 1767, Lydia Barker, dau. Robert Barker and Jedidah 
Chase. (Nantucket Friends' Records, Bk. II., p. 146.) 

Swain,7 Mary, dau. Francis Swain and Lydia Barker, to. Second 
month, 1811, Barnabas Russell, son John Russell and Hepzibah 
Coleman. (Friends' Records, Nantucket.) 

Swain, Mary, dau. of William Swayne, Jr., and Mary Pollard,* 
m. Reuben Waite (as first wife). Reuben Waite's second wife 
was Nancy Wood, dau. James Wood and Lydia Swain, and great- 
granddaughter of Stephen Gorham and Elizabeth (Gardner). 

Swain, Elizabeth, m. 1791, Benjamin Swift. (Nantucket Town 
Records, Bk. I., p. 129.) 

Swain, Joseph, to. Phebe Barney, dau. Benjamin Barney and 
Huldah (Bunker). (1774, Friends' Records, Bk. II., p. 218.) 

Swain, John (called England), ft. in England, d. at Nantucket, 
1749, to. Patience Skiff, dau. James Skiff, Jr., and Sarah (Bar- 
nard). (Probate Records, Bk. II., p. 137.) 

Swift, Dr. Paul, m. Dorcas Gardner. (Friends' Records, Bk. IV., 
p. 75, 1827.) 

Tripp, John, to. Mary Paine, dau. Anthony Paine. (Rhode 
Island His. Magazine.) 

Wier, Hester, to. 1st, Benjamin Swett (Hist, of Newbury, p. 

319); 2d, Stephen Greenleaf, Sr. (Hist, of Newbury, p. 304). 
(1679.) 

Wing, Samuel, m. Hepzibah Hathaway. (See page 184.) 



* Mary Pollard was daughter of Philip Pollard and Mehitable 
(Gardner), who was daughter of James Gardner and Mary (Star- 
buck). 



306 Early SeMlers of Nantucket. 

Wing, John (Sandwich), m. Deborah Batchelder, dau. Kev. 
Stephen Batchelder. (See page 184.) 

Wing, Stephen, son of John Wing and Deborah (Batchelder), m. 
Sarah Briggs. 

Wing, John, son of Stephen Wing and Sarah (Briggs), m. July 
22, 1685, Mary Perry, dau. Edward Perry. (Sandwich Friends' 
Record, Bk. I., 74.) 

Wing, Paul, m. Abigail Wing. (Sandwich Friends' Records, 
1763.) 

Wing, Zaecheus, m. Content Swift. (Ibid., 1731.) 



Note. — In recorded dates we often find two years given, — i.e., 
1637-38. In what was known as old style, the year began March 
25, and when the new or present style was adopted many were 
not pleased with the innovation; recorders therefore accommo- 
dated themselves to the caprice of the people, and gave the date 
in accordance with both methods. This will account for any dis- 
crepancy covering not more than three months. 

Note. — William C. Folger, whose MSS. are here quoted, was 
Corresponding Member of the New England Genealogical So- 
ciety, and prepared a number of Nantucket Genealogical notes 
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APPENDIX II. 



APPENDIX II. 

The break in the records connecting the early Norman CoflBns 
with Tristram Coffin's family has never been satisfactorily filled, 
and much time and money has already been expended in the 
effort to do this; it is not likely that it will be accomplished 
unless some new place of abode of this family is discovered which 
may present new records and information. The country in which 
they were known to have lived has been thoroughly looked over, 
and its records exhaustively examined. The genealogical table 
following is the earliest data in direct line of which there is 
absolute record. 

The following extracts from The Exeter District Probate Reg- 
istry are offered as evidence that Tristram Coffin had more edu- 
cation than many of his contemporaries: 
" 1628 April 3 The Will dated 4 January 1627-8 of John 

Coffin of Brixton Devon w'as proved in the court of the 

adn of Totnes. 

The Testator gave to the Poor of Brixton 10/ — 

Joan, Deborah, Eunice, and Mary Coffin 20/ — each at 12 

years old. 

Mathue Simnell 10/ — 

John Coffin £10 at 12 

Tristram Coffin all residue, and he apptd him Executor. 
" The testator made his mark and the Will was sealed in the 
presence of 

Hennery Tammas 
*Maethal Simnell 

•"Doubtful "The Inventory enclosed in the bundle is that 

person as i n of Peter Coffyn, taken 5 March 1627-8 by Richard 

notf the witness Worth Clerk ; Phillip Avent, and George Roper 

sTmnTiu'^'B'y £236,5,7 and it included chatties on years and lifes 
another paper it fiRn 
is 'Martha' and *^""- 

she is also the " The legal proceedings were taken by Nicholas 

person to whom o t- o ./ 

the 10s. is given Coffin and Ann Winson or (Wynson) alias Coffin 

brother and sister of the testator, against the Ex- 
ecutor and were apparently commenced at Plimp- 
ton on 17 January 1627-8. 



310 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

" The answers of the two witnesses to the inter- 
rogatories administered on the part of the promo- 
ters of the suit go to show 

" THAT the testator and Martha Simnell could 
read but not writ«, that Henry Thomas could 
neither read nor write and that Tristram Coffin 
could do both. THAT the Will was written by 
Tristram on a certain Friday evening in an upper 
chamber of the testators house where he (the 
testator) was lying sick. THAT the WDl was read 
by testator himself and sealed by him with a key 
and that he and the witnesses made their marks 
and that all their names were written by Tristram, 
THAT the reason why the Will was written by 
Tristram was that there was no one else present 
who could write and that he could not get any 
other to write it, as the sickness was very infec- 
tious. THAT the allegation was that two or three 
days before New Years Day then last past John 
Coffin the testator instructed Tristram to make his 
Will and told him that Nicholas Coffin his (testa- 
tor) brother's son should be Executor, and that in- 
stead of acting on these instructions Tristram put 
in his own name and that when the testator read 
jjo^h^o^aper is ^he Will so drawn he tore the paper.* 

" At the hearing however the promoters did not 
appear and sentance was pronounced for the will 
propounded by Tristram on 2 April 1628." 

It would appear from the above that the effort to prove Tris- 
tram at fault was unavailing, and from the fact that the paper 
was not torn, we conclude Tristram was the executor his uncle 
John Coffin intended. 



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Appendix. 311 

The appended Will of John Htevens, father of Robert, who 
was father of Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, gives us a generation 
further back in this line. 

All these papers have come into the hands of the writer since 
the main text of this book was completed. They have been ac- 
quired by a descendant of Tristram Coffin, and are careful ab- 
stracts or copies of the English records. 



EXTRACTED FROM THE DISTRICT REGISTRY ATTACHED 

TO THE PROBATE DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT 

OF JUSTICE AT EXETER. 

In the Archdeaconry Court of Totnes. 

In the name of God amen &c The IXth — day of Marche ano 
Dni 1008 I John Stephen of Brixton being sicke and weake in 
body but of pfect remembrance thankes be given to God doe 
make and ordayne this my last Will and Testamt in mannr and 
forme following: 

Imprimis I give and commend my Soule into the hands of God 
my Creator and my body to the Earth whence it was taken. 

Itm I give and bequeath towards the benefit of the Church 
lis. Itm. I give unto the poore of the Pish of Brixton lis. 
Itm I give unto Johan the Daughter of Robt Stephen my sonne 
my black heiffer. Itm I give unto Robt Algar my sonne-in lawe 
my best dublett my best coat my best hat my best breeches my 
best shirt my best stockins & ray best shoes and my best shirt 
band. Itm. I give unto Robt Algar XXs. Itm. I give unto my 
Daughter Elizabeth Thome the wife of James Thorne XXs Itm. 
I give unto Dunes the wife of Robt Stephen the sume of Fower 
pounds a yeare to Vje payed unto her yearly during her naturall 
life out of my living in Iford. the tyme of payment to beginne 
imedyatly after my death or ye death of Robt Stephen my sonne. 
Itm. I give unto .lohan Prowes Xs. Itm. I give unto Walter 
Bowman if he be serving in my house at the tyme of my death 
V6. Itm I give unto Willm the sonne of Robt. Stephen Xlld. Itm 
I give unto Tristra the sonne of Robt Stephen Xlld. Itm I give 
unto John Stephen the sonne of Robt Stephen my standing bed- 
fctead my chest my coffer standing in my chamber to remayne in 
the house for his use after the death of my sonne Robt Stephen 
all the residew of my goods moveable and unmoveable my debts 



313 Early Settlers of Nantucket. 

and legacyes payed I give and bequeath unto my sonne Robt 
Stephen whom I make Executor of this my last Will and Tes- 

tamt. 

Signe Joins T. Stephens (seal) — 

Presente me — Timotheo Hayte Clico. 



An Inventory of all the Goods and chattells of John Steven 
of Brixton deceased taken valued & prsd by Robt Algar, Ty- 
mothe Hayte and others the XVth daie of ffebruary ano Dni 1611 

Imprimis on chest Xs 

Itm two bedsteads XXs 
Itm two little fether beds one fether pillow and 

one fether bolster and bedclothes fill Xs 

Itm his wearing apparrell XLs 
Itm certayne yron implemts and other household 

stuffe Ills Illld 
Suma total £VII Ills mid 

This will, in its mention of " my sonne Robt Stephen " and 
" Dunes the wife of Robt Stephen ", proves the name of Robert's 
father and gives one generation more upon which to build by 
further research. 



Copied from tlie original Coffin School JJedai. 



Appendix. 313 

The fact that this picture of " 1642 " has been supposed by- 
some descendants of Tristram Coffin to be an authentic copy 
from an original representation of the first Chief Magistrate of 
Nantucket, led to a query concerning it. 

The appended reply explains its existence, and gives interesting 
facts concerning the medals which Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin be- 
stowed upon the trustees of the Coffin School. 

The interest in education, which had already made consider- 
able progress, was stimulated by him. This interest continued for 
many years, during which time the schools of Nantucket were 
second to none in that vicinity. 

October 17th, 1901. 
Dear Mrs. Hinchman: 

The photo you name of Tristram Coffin is copied from one side 
of the Coffin School Medal, and is wholly ideal. The medal is 
about two inches in diameter, so the photograph is much en- 
larged. There were quite a number of medals struck in bronze, 
and one, I have seen, white metal. 

Each of the original trustees of the school had one. The Ad- 
miral had them struels in England after the school was estab- 
lished, and forwarded to the island. In his letter accompanying 
them he said the gilt one is for the President of the Trustees. 
It was at that time supposed to be gold and for transmission 
to succeeding Presidents; while in the possession of one of the 
later Presidents it was stolen by one of his juvenile relatives, 
who also believed it to be gold and tried to melt it into an ingot. 
He could not get heat enough to melt the bronze, but succeeded 
only in burning off the gilt. I have a number of them in a good 
state of preservation. 

One was recently found in San Francisco while excavating for 
a foundation. It was on a site where a Nantucket man had lived 
in the rugged days of California life and lost it. 

I cannot now recall who the person was, but I published an 
article on it at the time in response to an inquiry in a San Fran- 
cisco paper, which gave pictures of both sides of the medal. 

I made a plaster cast of one many years ago, and succeeded 
in moulding a rough copy in base metal, which I subsequently 
deposited with the Nantucket Historical Society. 

The little photos of some half dozen ancient paintings of mem- 
bers of the Coffin family were copied from painted portraits then 



314 Appendix. 

adorning the walls of the Portledge Manor House, near Bid- 
eford. County Devon, England, and are true to life as the painter 
artist could make, but there is no portrait nor personal descrip- 
tion of our ancestor, Tristram CofRn, that I have ever seen, and 1 
know of but one genuine autograph extant in Nantucket in all 
the public records and documents I have examined. 

The costume upon the medal was doubtless made up from a 
knowledge of what constituted the dress of the period of 1642, 
the year Tristram emigi-ated from England. 

1 have discussed that period in my life of T. C. to some ex- 
tent, and I have fallen upon nothing historical since the Coflin 
Reunion that would change my estimate of Tristram prior to 
his emigration to America nor of his career in America. 

Very respectfully, Allen Coffin. 



.'# 



Richard Coffin, Esq., of Port ledge. 

Sheriff of Devonshire in idgg. 



NAMES OF MINISTEES OF THE SOCIETY OF 

FRIENDS AND THEIR COMPANIONS WHO 

VISITED NANTUCKET FROM 

1664 TO 1847. 



NAMES OF MINISTERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS 

AND THEIR COMPANIONS WHO VISITED NANTUCKET 

FROM 1664 TO 1847. 



DATE NAME EESIDBNCB 

1664— Jane Stoaks, Old England 

(" tis thought was the first 
friend on this island from 
O. E.") 

1698— Thomas Turner, Old England 
Hugh Copperthwait, Long Island 
Thomas Chalkly, Old England 
John Easton, Rhode Island 

Joanna Mott, Rhode Island 

1699— Ebenezer Slocum, Conanicut 

Jacob Mott and son, R. I. 

Jacob Mott, Jr., Rhode Island 

1701— Walter Clark. -> 

Jacob Mott (2d time), | R. I. 
Jacob Mott, Jr. (2d time), R. I. 
(" this time he first appeared 

in Publick.") 
Thomas Thompson, Old England 
John C:!larke, Old England 

Susanna Freeborn, "I R. I. 

Ruth Fry, not publick, j 

1702— Jedidah Allen, New Jersey 

Thomas Cornell, Rhode Island 
John Richardson, Old England 
James Bates, Virginia 

Jacob Mott (3d time), R. I. 
Susanna Freeborn (2d time), R.I. 
Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

1703— John Kinsey, Woodbridge 

Richard Gove, Old England 

John Hussey, New Castle, Del. 
(then Penna.) 
Ephraim Hicks, Rhode Island 
Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

1704— Thomas Chalkly (2d time), O.E. 
Richard Harper, Sandwich 

Mary Slocimi, 

Thomas Story, Old England 

John Butler, Ireland 

1705 — Samuel Bownas, Old England 
("He was imprisoned 11 months 
3 weeks & several days on 
Long Island.") 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

170&— Mary Banister, ") Old England 
Ann Chapman, J Old England 
Hugh Copperthwait (2d time). 

Long Island 
Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

William Anthony, R. I. 

1706— John Fothergill, "I 0. Eng. 
William Armistead, J O. Eng. 
John Smith, Philadelphia 

Susannah Freeborn (3d time), 

Rhode Island 
Hope Borden, not publick, 
Joseph Wanton, "1 R. I. 

Ephraim Hicks (2d time), J R. I. 
Mary Lawson, Old England 

Ester Palmer, Long Island 

1707— Jacob Mott & Wife, 

1708 — Patrick Henderson, Ireland 

Ebenezer Slocum (2d time), 

Conanicut 
Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

Jacob Mott, Rhode Island 

Thomas Cornell, Rhode Island 
William Barker, Rhode Island 
Eleazer Slocum, 
Joanna Mott, 

Rose Tibbits, "1 Dover 

Sarah Austin, J 

Note. — " These ten came on at 
the settling of the Yeariy 
Meeting, which was the 23d of 
4th Mo. 1708." 
Joseph Smith, Providence 

Alice Anthony, 'I Rhode Island 
Dorcas Easton, j 
Ephraim Hicks (3 times), 

1709— Griffith Owen, "1 Philadelphia 
John Saltkill, / 

Thomas Cornell, Rhode Island 
Ebenezer Slocvun, Conanicut 
Jacob Mott, Junr., Dartmouth 
William Baldwin, Old England 
Hugh Durborow, Philadelphia 



318 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATS NAME KESIDENCE 

1709— John Easton, Rhode Island 

Ruth Smith, Dartmouth 

1710— William Wilkinson, Providence 



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Rhode Island 
Pennsylvania 



Jacob Mott, 
1711— Anthony Morris, 

Thomas Shakel 

Jacob Mott, Dartmouth 

Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

Thomas Potta, Pennsylvania 

William Barker, 

Peleg Slocum Junr., Dartmouth 
1712-John Oxley, Philadelphia 

William Wood, not publick, 

Dartmouth 

Joseph Smith, 

Alice Anthony, 
1713— Jacob Morril, 

John Farmer, 

Thomas Chalkley 



Providence 
Rhode Island 
Hampton 
Old England 
(3d time). 
Old England 
Pennsylvania 
Old England 



Tristram Allen, 

Ann Chapman, 

Alice Wildman, not publick, 

Susanna Freeborn, Rhode Island 
' John Lowden, formerly of Ire- 
land, but now from the west- 
ward. 

Francis Swain, Old England, but 
now from the westward. 
1714— Samuel Gasgel, "» Salem 

Samuel Collins, J 

James Dickenson, Old England 

James Cooper, 

Jacob Mott, 

John Giles, 

Richard Smith 
1715 — Richard Seaman, 

William Wilkinson (2d time). 

Providence 

Mary Bannister, Old England 

Ann Richardson, not publick, 

Thomas Thompson, Old England 

David Irish, Little Compton 

Benjamin Holme, Old England 
1716— William Barker, Rhode Island 

Benjamin Holme (2d time). 

Old England 

William Baldwin, "j Pennsylvania 

Peter Fearson, J 

Abraham Booth, Scituate 

Elizabeth Wartnaby, O. Eng. 



lith. / 



Ireland 
Rhode Island 
Old England 

Long Island 



DATE NAME RBSIDENCB 

1716— Lydi* Norten, Hampton 

Rose Tibbita (2d time), Cocheca 
Mary Slocum, 
Christopher Blackburn, Phila. 

1717— John Farmer, Old England 

William Armstrong, ") O. Eng. 
James Graham, j 

Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

Mary Slocum, 
Hepzibah Hathaway, 
Griffith, Owen (2d time) ■» Phila. 
John Saltkill (2d time) J 
Richard Castes, Lynn 

Jacob Mott, Rhode Island 

Patience Anthony, 
John Cadwalader, "1 Philadelphia 
John Smith, j 

1718— John Wanton, Rhode Island 

Nicholas Davis, Rochester 

1719 — Mary Brown, Newberry 

Ann Stanyan, 

Sarah Norten, Salisbury 

John Danson, "> Old England 
Isaac Hadwen, J Old England 
Elizabeth Wartnaby, Old Eng. 
Rebecca Turner, O. Eng. 

Elizabeth Rallingson, ■> O. Eng. 
Lydia Lancaster, j 

(Sisters by marriage.) 
Peleg Slocum, Dartmouth 

Rose Tibbita (3d time), 
Nicholas Austin, 

1720— Jacob Mott, Rhode Island 

Stephen Wilcox, Dartmouth 

James Stanyan, Salisbury 

Ann Stanyan (2d time), 
Mary Brown, Newberry 

Barah Norten, 

Nathaniel Howland, Dartmouth 
Nicholas Austin, "J Dover 

Ephraim Tibbite, / 
Joseph Wanton, Tivertown 

1721— John Appleton, Old England 

1722— J no. Fothergill (2d time), | O.E. 
Lawrence King, j 

Moses Aldridge, Mendara 

Lydia Norton, Amesbury 

Rose Tibbits(4th time), Cocheca 
Robert Jordan, Virginia 

Obadiah Lawrence, Long Island 
John Kinsey, New Jersey 



Visiting Friends. 



319 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1723 — John Hiissey, Woodbridge 

Jacob Mott, Rhode Island 

Joseph Wanton, Tivertown 

Sariuel Aldridge, 
Ephraim Tibbits, Junr., 
Rose Tibbita (5th time), 

1724— Samuel Gaskill, Salem 

Benjamin Kidd, "1 Old England 
John Routledge, / Philadelphia 
Clark Rodman, 

Daniel Gould, Rhode Island 

Hannah Rodman, "1 not publick, 
Patience Rodman J 
John Bound, Long Island 

Adam Mott, Dartmouth 

John Wing, Sandwich 

Samuel Collins, Lynn 

Mary Clark, Rhode Island 

Deliverance Smith, 
Hepzibah Hathaway, 
Thomaa Lightfoot, an aged 
worthy Friend in the seven- 
tieth year of his age, 

Philadelphia 
John Easton 
William Barker 

1725— John Wanton, Rhode Island 
Nicholas Davis, Rochester 

Lydia Norten (2d time), 

Hampton 
Patience Anthony, Rhode Island 
Ephraim Hicks, Rhode Island 
Elizabeth Leviss, 1 
Jane Fenn, j 

1726 — Margret Preston, now of 

Philadelphia 
Ann Richardson, not publick, 
William Anthony, Rhode Island 
William Barker, 

John Tucker, Dartmouth 

Abigail Bowls, Ireland 

Grace Loyd, not publick, 

Philadelphia 

1727— William Piggot, of London, 

Old England 
James Lord, New Jersey 

Abraham Chase, Swanzey 

Rose Tibbits (6th time), 
Mary Dow, from Eastward, 

1728— Rowland Wilson, Old England 



DATE NAME EESIDENCB 

1728— Susanna Morris, "1 Pennsylvania 
Mary Folk, / 

Rose Tibbits (7th time), Dover 
Joseph Smith, "» Providence 
Joseph Edmunds, J Greenwich 
Joseph Taylor, Old England 

Robert Willsons companion, 
Evan Evans, "1 North Wales, Pa. 
John Evans j 

1729— Ephraim Tibbits, Dover 

Rose Tibbits, his wife (8th time), 
John Burling, not publick. 

New York 
Martha Wood, Abington, R. I. 
Ruth Fish, Abington, R. 1. 

John Cadwalader, Pennsylvania 
Ebenezer Large, New Jersey 

1730— John Salkild, "t Philadelphia 
Joshua Lord, J New Jersey 

Rose Tibbits (9th time), Dover 
Sarah Norton, 

Sarah Chase, Swanzey 

Mary Pennel, 'I Chester Co., Pa. 
Mary Lewis, j 

Obadiah Lawrence,") Long Island 
Thomas Franklin, j 
Adam Mott, Dartmouth 

1731 — Ruth Jones, Pennsylvania 

Rose Tibbits (10th time),) Dover 
Sarah Kenny, j 

Henery Frankland, Old England 
Joshua Wixom, Yarmouth 

1732— John Richardson, Yorkshire, 

Old England 
Paul Johnston, Ireland 

Hugh Clifton, Salem, N. J. 

Richard Wall, Philadelphia 

1733— Hannah Dent, Yorkshire, O. E. 
Isaac Chase, "> Swanzey 

Job Chase, j 

Eliphel Harper, Seconet 

Mongo Buley, "J Ireland 

Samuel Stephens, / 
David Irish, Little Compton, R.I. 
Rose Tibbits (11th time), Dover 
Patience Redwood, not publick, 
Rhode Island 
Alice Alderson, "l O. Eng. 
Margaret Copeland, j 
Eliphel Harper (2d time), Seconet 



320 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1733 — Jane Fenn, "1 Pennsylvania 

Rebecca Minshall, J 
Martha Pettel, Boston 

1734 — Zacheriah Nixon, Carolina 

Joseph Russel, Dartmouth 

Moses Aldrige, Mendum 

Lydia Norton, Amesbury 

Hannah Proud, Rhode Island 
Andrew Cramer, Philadelphia 
John Tucker, Dartmouth 

1735— John Burton, "I O. Eng. 

William Backhouse, j 
Joseph Gill, Ireland 

Thomas Evans, New Jersey 

John Easton, Rhode Island 

Hugh Clifton, New Jersey 

Eliphel Harper (3d time), 

Falmouth 
Edward Tyler, ^^Bristol, O.Eng. 
Daniel Stanton, j Philadelphia 
Edward Tyler (2d time), O.Eng. 
John Easton, Rhode Island 

1736 — Arthur Jones, Bucks County 
John Tucker, Dartmouth 

Adam Mott, Dartmouth 

Lydia Norton, Pennsylvania 

Hannah Proud, not publick, 

Rhode Island 
John Easton, "t Rhode Island 
John Casey, j 

Peter Davis, Westerly 

Ebenezer Woodward, Taunton 
David Irish, Little Compton 

Theophilius Shove, Dighton 

Savory Clifton, Rochester 

Rachel Seaman, "» Long Island 
Mary Prior, j 

Lydia Sole, Dartmouth 

Meribah Slocum, not publick, 
1737- -Thomas Chalkley (4th time), 
Philadelphia 
Elijah Collins, not publick. 

Boston 
John Casey, "» Rliode Island 
Clark Rodman, j 
Christopher Townsend, 
Ebenezer Woodward, Taunton 
John Fothergill, Old England 
Samuel Jordan, Virginia 

1738— Ruth Courtney, ) Ireland 

Susanna Hudson, 



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DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1739 — Michael Lightfoot, Pennsylvania 
John Hunt, Old England 

John Tucker, Dartmouth 

Hugh Clifton (3d time), N. J. 

1740— Peter Davis, Westerly 

Christopher Townsend, R. I. 

Jane Hoskins, "> Chester 

Mary Folke, / Philadelphia 
Rose Tibbits (12th time), Dover 
Ebenezer Woodward, Taunton 
Joshua Lord, ") New Jersey 
Abraham Moss, ( 
Henry Stanton, Junr., N. C. 

1741— Deborah Reed, Freetown 

William Brown, "> 
John Griffith. / 
Samuel Hopwood, Old England 
Obadiah Butler, not publick, 

1742— Samuel Hopwood (2d time), 

Old England 
John Churchman, Chester, Pa. 
Lydia Dean, Pennsylvania 

Eliphel Harper (4th time), 
Abigail Kirby, Dartmouth 

Hannah Jenkins, Philadelphia 

1743— John Haslem, "I Yorkshire,O.E. 
Joseph Hoskins, | Chester, Pa. 
Kezia Baker, Rye, Long Island 
Hannah Cock, Long Island 

Edmund Peckover, Old England 
Thomas Redman, New Jersey 

1744— Christopher Willson, O. Eng. 
Eleazer Sheldon, Dublin, Ireland 

1745— Silas Cerpenter, Providence 

Adam Mott, Dartmouth • 

Deborah Reed (2d time), 

Freetown 
Hannah Hoeg, ■( Hampton 

Hannah Sweet, J 
Lydia Sole, ") Nine Partners 
Kezia Wood, j 

Susana Gifford, Dartmouth 

Benjamin Farris, "> Oblong 

Joshua White, ] not publick, 
Stephen Chase, Freetown 

1746— John Casey, Rhode Island 

Benjamin Bufflngton, 
Stephen Chase (2d time), 

Freetown 

1747— Robert Knowls, "I Westerly, R.I. 
Joseph Casey, ( 



Visiting Friends. 



321 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1747— John Griffith, "1 Pennsylvania 
David Farris, / 

Thomas Gawthrop, Old England 
John Armit, not publick, 

Philadelphia 
Samuel Notingham, Old England 
Henry Tucker, not publick, 
John Wanton, not publick, 
Peter Andrews, "I New Jersey 
John Woolman, j 
Stephen Wilcox, Dartmouth 

1748 — Zacheriah Farris, New Jersey 
Robert Lewis, not publick, 
Nathaniel Lewis, not publick, 

1749— John Sykes, N. J. 

Abraham Farrington, 
Nicholas Austin, Abington 

Rose Tibbits (13th time), Dover 
Lydia Sole, Nine Partners 

1750 — Isaac Chase, Swanzey 

James Luther, not publick, 
Adam Mott, Dartmouth 

Lydia Mendenhall, CThester, Pa. 
Ann Schoolfield, 

Bucking in Penna. 
Mary AVeston, "> London, O. E. 
Grace Fisher, J Philadelphia 

1761 — Jonah Thompson, "I Dorset- 
James Thornton, J shire,O.E. 
Esther Hoeg, Hampton 

Comfort Hoeg, Hampton 

Joseph Eastis, "> Dartmouth 
Jonathan Wood, J 
Jane Ellis, "> Exeter, Pa. 

Rebecca Harvey, j Darby 

1752- William Horn, Darby, Pa. 

Benjamin Bufflngton (2d time), 
Swansy 
Jonathan Wood, Dartmouth 

Stephen Chase, Freetown 

Samuel Spencer, Pennsylvania 
Matthew Franklin, Long Island 

1753 — Abraham Farrington (2d time), 
John Casey, Rhode Island 

Theophilus Shove (2d time), 

Dighton 
Isabel Buffington, Swanzey 

1754— Daniel Stanton, "j 

(2d time), V Philadelphia 

Israel Pemberton, J not publick, 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1754— Thomas Lightfoot, not publick, 
Pennsylvania 
Mary Piesley, 

Queen County, Ireland 
Catharine Payton, 
Dudly, Old England, in Wor- 
cestershire 
1755— Comfort Hoeg, ") Hampton 

Elizabeth Dean, j 
Samuel Fothergill, Old England 
William Logan, Pennsylvania 
Joshua Dixon, 

Durham, Old England 
Jacob Barney, not publick, 

Rhode Island 
Phebe Phares, ") Oblong 

Mary Chase, J 
Benjamin Phares (2d time). 

Oblong 
William Rufsel, not publick, 
Thomas Goodwin, Goshen, Pa. 
1756— Thomas Gawthrop (2d time). 

Old England 
1757— Peter Davis, ) Westerly 

James Scriven, j 
Christopher Wilson (2d time), 

Old England 
Matthew Franklin (2d time). 

Long Island 
Benjamin Phares (3d time). 

Oblong 
James Tasker, Oxfordshire, O.E. 
Mark Reeve, not publick, 

Cohansey, N. J. 
1758— Samuel Spavold, Harford, O. E. 
Matthew Franklin (3d time), 

Long Island 
John Casey, Rhode Island 

Mary Piesly, "j Hampton 

Comfort Hoeg, V 
Patience Dow, J 

William Rickett, Old England 
Robert Willis, Ratiway, N. J. 
Benjamin Phares (4th time), 

Oblong 
Richard Titus, Westerly, L. L 
1759- John Storer, Nottingham, O. E. 
Benjamin Andrews, 

Mt. Holly, N. J. 
John Casey, Rhode Island 



322 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1759— Stephen Wilcox, Dartmouth 

Mary Kirby, Norfolk, O. Eng. 
Elizabeth Smith, Burlington 

Isaac Andrews, I New Jersey 
William Foster, / 
Timothy Davis, Rochester 

Peter Davis, Westerly 

John Casey, Rhode Island 

Nicholas Austin, Abington 

Benjamin Bufflngton, Swanzy 
Paul Osbom, 

Christopher Townsend, R. I. 

Nathaniel Green, Greenwich 

Thomas Hazard, S. Kingston 
Mary Kirby (2d time), O. Eng. 
Elizabeth Smith (2d time), 

Burlington 
1760— Samuel Eastbiu-n, Bucks Co., Pa. 
John Woolman, Mount Holly 
Ann Grant, Little Egg Harbor 
Mary Redman, Haddonfield.N.J. 
Comfort Hoeg (4th time), 

Hampton 
Mary Bowel, not publick, 

Hampton 
Elizabeth Shipley, 

Wilmington, Del. 
Hannah Foster, Evesham, N. J. 
1761— Jane Crofsfield, 

Westmoreland, Old England 
Lydia Southwarth, not publick, 
Dighton 
Samuel Nottingham (ye 2d 
time), Tortola 

(Formerly of Old England.) 
Susanna Hutton >. Ireland 

(2d time), / 

Susanna Brown r Phila. 

(2d time), ) 

Robert Wills (2d time), 

Ratiway, N. J. 
Note. — Robert Willis and Robert 
Wills are doubtless the same 
man. 
1762— Robert Proud, Yorkshire,O.Eng. 
Matthew Franklin (4th time). 
Long Island 
John Pemberton, Philadelphia 
Hannah Harris, "I Cumber- 

Eliz. Wilkinson, ( land, O. E. 
Comfort Hoeg (5th time), 

Hampton 



DATE NAME 

1762— Alice Hall, 
Ann Newlin, 

1763— Peter Davis, "> 
Joseph Condon, j 



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RESIDENCE 

Old England 

Concord, Pa. 

Westerly 

Charles Town 



1764— John Sleeper, Mt. Holly, N. J. 
Paul Osbom, not publick, 

Dighton 
Henry Stanton (2d time), N. C. 
Richard Titus, Long Island 

Jonathan Hussey, Dartmouth 
Matthew Franklin (5th time). 

Long Island 
Henry Stanton (3d time), N. C. 
Timothy Davis, Rochester 

Thomas Conistock, Greenwich 
Hannah Chase, Swanzey 

Robert Willis (3d time), N. J. 
James Mitchel, not publick, 

Rhode Island 

1765— William Ricket (2d time) 

Old England 
Paul Osborn, not publick, Oblong 
Mordecai Yarnal, Philadelphia 
Robert Willis (4th time), N. J. 

1766— Thomas Gawthrop, Old England 
Paul Osbom, not publick. Oblong 
John Griffith (3d time), O. Eng. 
Thomas Ross, Bucks Co., Pa. 

1767— William Hunt, ■) New Garden, 
Zechariah Dicks, j in N. Car. 
William Hunt "j 

(2d time), I N. Car. 

Thomas Thombrough, J 
Aaron Vail, Nine Partners 

William Hunt (3d time), N. C. 
Thomas Thornbrough (2d time), 
North, Carolina 
Aaron Vail (2d time). 

Nine Partners 

176S— Thomas Carlton, Kennett, Pa. 
Joshua Shearman, ■) NinePartners 
Aaron Lancaster, J Marrineck 

1769 — John Pemberton, Philadelphia 
Rachel Wilson, "I Kendal, O. E. 
Sarah Hopkins, J West Jersey 

1770— Peter Davis, Westerly 

Joshua Brown, Pennsylvania 

David Willits, Long Island 

Comfort Hoeg, Hampton 

Matthew Franklin (6th time), 

Long Island 
Richard Titus (3d time), L. I. 



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323 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1771— William Hunt (4th time), N.O. 

Thomas Thornbrough (3d time), 

North Carolina 

Joseph Oxley, Norwich, O. Eng. 

Joshua Thompson, not publick, 

New Jersey 

Mary Callender, Rhode Island 

Amey Thurston, not public, 

Stephen Comfort, "> Pa. 

Mark Reeves, J Pa. 

David Pharis, Pa. 

Samuel Neals, Old England 

1772 — Thomas Cumstock (2d time), 

Oblong 

Gaus Tallcott, New Milford 

James Neals, from Eastward 

Moses Pamum, "I Smithfleld 

George Arnold, J Smithfield 

William Jones, Mt. Holly, N. J. 

1773 — William Matthews, Warwick, Pa. 

John Willis, Long Island 

Abraham Anthony, Rhode Island 

David Buffum, Providence 

Thomas Hazard, South Kingston 

Abel Thomas, | Pa. 

Samuel Lee, not publick, / Pa. 

(" Abel was silent in publick 

while among us e.xcept in a 

Select meeting.") 

Robert Knowls, Westerly 

1774— Robert Walker, 

Leeds, in Yorkshire 
Elizabet Robinson, 

Richmond, in Yorkshire 
Susanna Lightfoot (3d time), 

Chester County, Pa. 
Samuel Smith, Philadelphia 

John Simpson, Bucks Co., Pa. 
Zechariah Dicks "1 

(2d time), J- New Garden 

John Carter, J 
William Coffin, Jr., not publick 
Morris Birbeck, not publick, 

Old England 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1774 — Benjamin Barney Junr. 

Zechariah Dicks (3d time), 
John Carter (2d time), 
Morris Birbeck (2d time), 
John Pemberton, "( Philadelphia 
Charles West, / Philadelphia 
Mary Lever, Old England 

Rebecca Seattergood, Phila. 

1775 — William Jones, Mount Holly 
Moses Farnum, Smithfleld 

Robert Willis, Ratiway, N. J. 
Jonathan Farnum, Smithfleld 
Joseph Rotch, not publick, 

Dartmouth 
Thomas Gawthrop, Old England 
Paul Osbom, not publ, Oblong 

1776— David Farris, Wilmington 

John Perry, not publick, 

Wilmingrton 
Phebe Yamal, Concord, Pa. 
Rebecca Wright, New Jersey 
Rebecca Wright (2d time), N. J. 
Phebe Yarnall (2d time), Pa. 
Mary Calender (2d time), 

Rhode Island 
Eunice Barney, not publick, 

1777— Mehetible Jenkins, Dover 

Hannah Hacker, not publick, 

Salem 
Richard Holder, not publick, 

Salem 
Patience Brayton, Swanzey 

Aaron Lancaster,* "j Oblong 

(2d time), I Nine 

David Sands, J Partners 

Benjamin Jones, Mount Holly 
George Dilwyn, Burlington 

Joshua Fulsome, From Eastward 
James Neals, From Eastward 
Asa Aldrige, 

From Smithfield or thereaway 

1778— Aaron Lancaster, -j- ^ Oblong 
(3d time), I 

David Sanda [ Nine 

(2d time), j Partners 



* 1777 (8 mo.)—" These friends were on the Island 3 weeks and 4 or 5 days ; they 
had extraordinary Service among us, in visiting all the families of friends distinctly, 
also having Select meetings of the heads of families of friends, also with the youth, 
males by themselves, and females by themselves, also several meetings of other 
Societies selected from those under the care of friends; may their zeal for the pros- 
perity of truth & our welfare be gratefully remembered." 

t " 1778 (6 mo.) — Aaron Lancaster 3 times Obi. David Sands 2 time 9 partners 
these friends have not been home since they were here Last year, but have been 
visiting to Ye Eastwd. as far as Kennebeck." 



524 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

177&— Eliz. Southwick, "j Smithfield or 
Abigail Arnold, I thereaway 
Oziah Wilkinson, J 
Aaron Lancaster (4th time), 
Seth Gardner, 

1779_David Sands (3d time), 

Isaac Varney, not publick. 

From Salem 
David Sands (4th time), 
Solomon Underbill, L. I- 

Joseph Walters, Nine Partners 
Mary Mitchell (formerly Calen- 
dar) (3d time), Greenwich 

Abraham Griffith, Pens 

Paul Osborn, Oblong 

1780— Joseph Mitchel, Greenwich 

John Lloyd, Pennsylvania 

Benedict Carpenter, Long Island 
John Allsop, not publick, 

1781— David Brooks, New Garden 

Seth Coffin, not publick, 
John Foreman, "1 Pa. 

Thomas Scattergood, J Pa. 

James Thornton, "> Abington.Pa. 
Samuel Smith, j Philadelphia 
Thomas Carrington, Pa. 

Patience Brayton, Swanzey 

George Churchman, "V Maryland 
David Cooper, iNew Jersey 

Warner Mifflin, j Penna. 

(" 3 worthy Elders who La- 
boured industriously for a ref- 
ormation amongst us.") 
Elizabeth Heighth, Nine Partners 
Hannah Barker, Nine Partners 

1782— William Jackson, Pennsylvania 
Mary Mitchel (wife of James), 
George Dill win (2d time), 

Burlington 
Joseph Pierceall, Long Island 
Joseph Mitchel, Rhode Island 
Sarah Hampton, "» New Jersey 
Anna Willis, J Long Island 
Patience Brayton, Swanzey 

Note.— '• The first Quarterly meet- 
ing held at Nantucket, was on ye 1st 
of 7th mo this present year, 1782." 

1783— Thomas Haszard, S. Kingston 
Moses Brown, Providence 

Job Scott, 

Smithfield or thereaway 



DATE NAME EESIDBNCE 

1783— Caleb Green, Conanicut 

Mehitable Jenkins, Dover 

Elizabeth Varney, Berwick 

Mary Mitchel (wife of Joseph), 
Mary Mitchel (wife of James), 
Patience Brayton, Swanzey 

Abel Tliomas (2d time), Pa. 
Tristram Russel, Nine Partners 
Joseph Mitchel, Rhode Island 
1784— David Willits (2d time), 

Samuel Hopkins, Pennsylvania 
Tedeman Hull, Nine Partners 
John Willis, Long Island 

Joseph Willis, not publick, 
Phineas Buckley, not publick, 
Hugh Judge, Wilmington, Del. 
Joseph Tatnall, not publick, 

Wilmington, Del. 
John Kaighton, Philadelphia 
James Bringhiu-st, not publick, 
Philadelphia 
178&— Zechariah Dicks (4th time). 

New Garden, No. Carolina 
John Elliot, Jr., Phila. 

Ann Jesop, No. Carolina 

("After being with us awhile 
went to London with Zecha- 
riah Dicks on a religious visit 
to Friends in great Britain.") 
Joseph Mitchel, Rhode Island 
(" Was here awhile then went 
of and returned again and 
Visited the familys of Friends 
among us, being the Last time 
of his being here.") 
1786— John Storer (2d time), O. Eng. 
John Townsend, O. Eng. 

Nicholas Wain, Philadelphia 

Sarah Lundy (2d time), N. J. 
Robert Willis (6th time), N. J. 
John Townsend (2d time), 
Elihu Kirk, Pennsylvania 

Thomas Colly, O. Eng. 

Joseph More, 
Abraham Gibbons, 
1787— Wm. Savery, Phila. 

1788 — Joseph Delaplane, New York 
Solomon Underhill, Long Island 
Gideon Seaman Elder, 

Long Island 
Samuel Emlin, Phila. 



Visiting Friends. 



32- 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1788 — Remington Hobby, Kennebec 
1789 — Benjamin Worth, Manmoraneck 
James Mott Elder, Manmoraneck 
George Martin, ") Pennsylvania 
John Talbert, j Pennsylvania 
Bebecea Jones, of Phlla., " who 
taried on the Island some days 
* & visited some familys of 

Friends among us, having Se- 
lect meeting with the young 
men & Young women Separ- 
ately also a meeting with the 
Blacks." 
John Simpson, "1 Pennsylvania 
Asa Smith, j Providence 

Zacchariah Faris, ") Pennsylvania 
Robert Johnson, / Pennsylvania 
Isaac Everet, of Phila. 

John Stone, 

Slade Stphen, Swanzey 

Joseph Austin, 
1790— Daniel Offla, Philadelphia 

Elisabeth Drinker, Pliiladelphia 
Benjamin Wortli, Merioncfc 

Hugh Judge, Wilmington 

James Mott, Long Island 

John Morton, Philadelphia 

Hannah Yerks, 

Joshua Brown, Philadelphia 

Benjamin Swett, 
Jacob Mott, Rhode Island 

Jacob Maul, New Jersey 

1791— Samuel Emlen, Philadelphia 

Thomas Scattergood, Phila. 

Benjamin Worth, Vassal 

Caleb C'resson, Pliiladelphia 

Mary Ridgeway, Ireland 

Jane Watson, Ireland 

Elizabeth Martin, Long Island 
Sarali Lundy, 
William Shotwell, 
Jessa Copeland, Virginia 

1792 — John Reeve, New Jersey 

Benjamin Reeve, 
George R., 
1793— Elisha Thornton, 

Benedict Arnold, Sfleld 

Elias Hicks, N. Y. 

James Mott, Long Island 

Sarah Talbot, 
Ann Ferris, Pennsylvania 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1793— Stephen Mendenhall, Pa. 

Peter Yamall, Philadelphia 

Jacob Mott, Long Island 

Thomas Willis, 
1794 — Joshua Evans, New Jersey 

Gardner Earle, N. 

David Sands, 

John Wigham, Scotland 

1795— Rebecca Wright, New Jersey 

Martha Routh, England 

John Cloud, N. P. 

James Davis, 

Joseph Collins, 

Abigail Robinson, Rhode Island 

Henry Hull, 

Paul Upton, 

Deborah Darby, 

Rebecca Young, 

Cornelius Rowland, 

Elizab. & Hannah Mott, R. I. 
1796 — Remmington Hobby, Vassa 

Hannah Barnard, Hudson 

Elizabeth Varney, 

John Loyd, Pennsylvania 

James Davis, N. B. 

Stephen Buffinton, 

Phebe Nichols, 
1797— John Wigham, 

Nathan Allen, Smithfield 

Aaron Wells, Philadelphia 

Martha Routh, England 

Charity Cook, 

Lydia Haskins, Carolina 

James Davis, N. B. 

John M., F. 

John Elliot, 
Richard Jordan, 
Josiah WTiite, 

Thomas Comstock, Hudson 

1798— Elisha Thornton, 1 Smithfield 
Walter Allen, j Smithfield 
John Parish, Philadelphia 

William Jackson, Pennsylvania 
Silas Downing, Long Island 

James Mott, 

Mary Prior, England 

Elizabeth Foulk, Philadelphia 
Mehitable Jenkins, 
Sarah Cartland, 

Stephen Bufiinton, Dartmouth 
Daniel Haverland, 



326 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1798— Tripp Mosher, 

Roger Haverland, 
Isaac Osbom, 
Jeremiah Austin, 
Thomas Rotch & wife, 
Jarvis Johnson, Ireland 

Joseph Wliitehall, 
Richard Mott, 
Abraliam Underbill, 
Rebecca Jones, 
Jane Snowden, 
Ruth Ann Rutter, 
Sarah Cresson, Philadelphia 

Jonathan Evans, 
Chalkley Albertson, "> 
Zachariah Nixon, J North Ca. 
1800— Stephen BuJHngton, Dartmouth 
Pennington Hobby, 
Jacob Taber, Maine 

Nathan Hunt, North Ca. 

John Heil, 

Hugh Judge, New York 

Willet Hicks, New York 

Ruth Halleck, Nine Partners 

Sarah Hull, Nine Partners 

1801— Joseph Hoeg, Vermont 

John Hall, England 

Stephen Grellette, 

Elizh Ooggeshall, 

Ann Mifflin, Phil a. 

Lot Tripp, New York 

1802— Joseph Hoeg, 

John Winslow, Portland 

Martha Routh, England 

Betsey Pennington, Salem 

John Davis, New Bedford 

1803 — James Simpson and Wife, 

Pennsylvania 

Micajah Collins, Lynn 

Elizah Coggeshall, 

Elizabeth Bud, New York 

Peter Barker, Philadelphia 

Lydia Rotch, New Bedford 

1804— Ann Alexander, England 

Hannah Fisher, Philadelphia 

Edward Gallug, 

Lydia Rotch, 

James Davis, 

Stephen Buffington, 

John R. Davis, 
1805— Wm. Crotch, England 



DATE NAME KESIDENCE 

1S05 — James Davis, 
Abel Thomas, 

Thomas Lea, Penna. 

1806— John Baily, 

John R. Davis, 

Daniel Quimby, Nine Partners 
Enoch Dorland, 

Israel Sabins, Richmond 

Daniel Aldridge, Uxbridge 

1807— Mattliew Franklin, New York 
Richard Mott, New York 

WilUam Flanner, N. G. 

Stephen Gardner, 

North Carolina 
John Baily, 

Benjm Worth & wife. Me. 

1808— Lydia Rotch, New Bedford 

John Baily, 
Stephen Buffington, 
1809 — James Mendenhall, Vermont 

Ann Merriott, 
Esther Griffith, 
Hannah Field, J Nine Partners 
Gideon Seaman, 
Stephen Buffinton, 
Benjamin Percival, 
James Davis^ 

Lydia Rotch, New Bedford 

Rowland Green, 
1810— Thomas Titus, 

Willet Hicks, New York 

James Davis, 
John Baily, 
Stephen BufBnton, 
Lydia Rotch, New Bedford 

Benjamin Worth, Vassal 

(No doubt meant for Vassal- 
boro', Me.) 
1811— Edward Brooks, West Chester 
William Williams, Tennessee 

Thomas Scattergood, 

Amos Piesley, Pittsfleld 

John Bailey, 

Mary Allison, 

Elisha Thornton, 

Benjamin Mitchell, 

Lydia Rotch, 

" Benjamin F.," 

Benjamin Worth, Vass. 

Nathan Hunt, 1 New Garden 

Matthew Coffin, ( New Garden 



Visiting Friends. 



327 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1811 — James Davis, 

Elizabeth Coggeshall, New York 

Joseph Douglas, 1 Maine 

Edward Cobb, / Maine 

1812— Amos Piesly, 

Benjamin Fulsom, New York 

David Sands, 

James Hazzard, 

Benjamin Percival, 

John R. Davis, 

Matthew Franklin, 

Nehemiah Merritt, New York 

Elisha Tliornton, 
1813— Henry Hull, Stanford 

Abel Thomas, 

John Baily, 

John R. Davis, 

Avis Keene, 

Elisha Thornton, 
1814— Gideon Mollineaux, 1 New York 

Jabez Green, J New York 

Hinchman Haines, Evesham 

Joseph Hains, West Jersey 

Mary B. Allen, 
1815— Elisha Thornton, 

James Halleck, Cornwall 

Edward Wing, 

Daniel Jenkins, 

Benjamin Mitchell, 

John R. Davis, 

John Ileald, "l 

James Bolton, j Oliio 

Benjamin Worth, 

Mary B. Allen, 

John Murry, 1 New York 

Thomas Eddy, J 

Isaac Bonsel, "1 Pliila. 

Samuel W. Fisher, j Phila. 

Benjamin Faber, 

Stephen Carpenter, Vermont 

Tristram Russell, New York 

Richard Mott, New York 

Lydia Mott, New York 

1816— Peter Hovey, 

Elisha Thornton, 

Benjamin Percival, 

Philip Dunham, 

Anna M. Thorn, Nine Partners 

Jemima Keys, Pennsylvania 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1816— Elizabeth Baldwin, New York 

Judith Coffin, 

Rachel Barnard, 

Benjamin Swain, 

Ruth Davis, 

Hannah Dennis, "> 

Jonathan Dennis, J 

David Harkness, 

Obed Harkness, New York 

1S17 — Isaac Thorn, Nine Partners 

Reuben House, 

William Cromwell, Poughkeepsie 

Mary Naftil, England 

Hannah Lewis, Phila. 

Jonathan Taylor, 

Benjamin Ladd, Oliio 

Benjamin Mitchell, 

Eldad Hoxey, 

John Baily, 

Jolin R. Davis, 

Mary B. Allen, 

Tristram Rutsell, 

Phillip Dunham, 
1818— Henry Post, Hudson 

Jared* T. Hopkins, Baltimore 

Benjamin Percival, 

Rufsell Davis, 

Elizabeth Coggeshall, New York 

Margaret Merriot, 

Isaac Proctor, 

Obidih Davis, 

Avis Keene. 

John Wilbur, Hopkinton 

Jonathan Dennis, Rhode Island 

Matthew Ferris, 

Sylvester Weeks, 

Thomas Anthony, Rhode Island 
1819— John Baily, 

John R. Davis. 

Benjamin Mitchell, 

Elizabeth Walker, 

Margaret Judge, Maryland 

Mary New, 

Benjamin Worth, 

Browning Swift, 

William Rickman, England 

Margaret Brooks, 

Sarah Sutton, 

Nathan Spencer & 

Ruth his wife. New York 



* Christian name in family is Gerard. 



328 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATE KAMK RESIDENCE 

1820— Charles Osborne, Indiana 

James Pegg, 

Daniel Haveland, New York 

Silas Downing, 

Caleb Maeomber & wife, 

Lydia Dean, Lynn 

Clark Stephen, Virginia 

Charles Taber, 

Dorcas Peckham, 
1821— Stephen Grellette, New York 

Thomas Williams, 

Benjamin Percival, 

Browning Swift, 

John R. Davis, 

Experience Sherman, 

Phillip Dunliam, 
1822— Rufsell Davis, 

Christopher Healy, Pennsylvania 

Moses Comfort, 

George Withy, England 

Isaac W. Morris, Philadelphia 

Adna Heaton, New York 

Tristram Rufsell, Cornwall 

Micajah Collins, 

Stephen Chase, Lynn 

1823 — Isaac Hammer, Tennessee 

James Hazzard, New York 

Benjamin Percival, 

Benjamin Mitchell, 

Jeremiah Hubbard, "> N.Carolina 

Elijah Coffin, j N.Carolina 

1824— Priscilla Hunt, Indiana 

Matthew Farris, 

Isaac Stephenson, England 

William Foster, England 

John Paul, Philadelphia 

Benjamin Percival, 

Rufsell Davis, 

John R. Davis, 

Thomas Jones, 

Browning Swift, Falmouth 

1825 — James Hazzard, New York 

Huldah Hoeg, Vermont 

Mehitable Austin, 

John Knowles, 

Rufsell Davis, 

Browning Swift, 

John R. Davis, 

Sarah Tucker, 

Susan Howland, 

George Hatton, Indiana 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1826— John Warren, 

John Dow, Me. 

Elizabeth Robson, England 

(Came the second time and 
visited families Bart. Wistar 
& Ruth Ely, companions.) 

Bart. Wistar, 

Ruth Ely, 

Samuel Merriot, New York 

John R. Davis, 

James Tucker & wife, 

Matthew Farris, 

1827— Valentine Meader & wife, Vt. 

John R. Davis, 

Lydia Mott, 

Thomas Shillitoe, England 

Smith Upton & wife. New York 

Anna Braithwaite, accom. by 

her husband, Isaac, England 

1828 — Hannah Hartshorn, Penna. 

Mary B. Allen, 

John R. Davis, 

Obidiah Davis & wife, 
1829— Daniel Puckett, ^^ 

Charles Lippincott, J Indiana 

George Jones & wife, England 

Elizabeth Pitfleld, Philadelphia 

John Wilbur. 1 

Andrew Nichols, J 

Mary B. Allen, 

Avis Keene, 

Mary Card & 

Anna Maeomber, 



1830 — Joseph Bowne, 


New York 


Phebe Field, 


New York 


Elisha Bates, 


Ohio 


Mary B. Allen, 




Jared Patterson, 


Car. 


Henry Stanton, 





1831— William Gary, New York 

Nathan Hunt, North Carolina 
Jeremiah Hubbard, N. Carolina 
Elisha Bates, Ohio 

Joseph Hoeg, Vermont 

Lindley M. Hoeg, Vermont 

Charles Taber, Vermont 

Jonathan Backliouse and wife, 
England 

1832— Mahlon Hoggett, 



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339 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1832— Hannah C. Backhouse,) England 
Eliza P. Kirkbride,* j Phila. 
Joseph Bowne, New York 

Lindley M. Hoeg, N.Hampshire 
1833— Royal Southwick, Uxbridge 

Mildrid Ratcliff, ■> 

George & Ruth Smith, / Ohio 
Hannah Dennis, Rhode Island 
Deborah Otis, New Bedford 

Jabez Greene, New York 

William Evans, Philadelphia 

1834— Rebecca Updegraff, "j Ohio 

Hannah Collins, I New York 

Benjamin Wright, J Penna. 
Thomas Arnott, Ohio 

Jonathan Backhouse & wife, 

England 
Elizabeth Ooggeshall, New York 
Sarah Upton, New York 

Dugan & Asenath Clark, Ohio 
Rowland Greene & daughter, 

Conanicut 
1835 or 36 — Zaccheus Bowman, Maine 

Martha Header & Husband, 
1835— Huldah Hoeg, Vermont 

Mead At water. New York 

Matthew Purington & wife. 

Providence 
Russell Davis, 

Zacheus Bowerman & wife, Me. 
1836— Benjamin Fry and wife, N.H. 
Joshua Linch, 
Samuel Rhodes, 
John R. Davis, 
Mary Card, 
Mary B. Allen, 

Susan Rowland, New Bedford 
Rachel Thornton, New York 
Valentine Header & wife. Me. 
John Wilbur, Hopkinton 

Benjamin Buffinton, Fall River 
Lindley M. Hoeg, N. Hampshire 
1837— Joanna Header, "> Maine 

Ann Pope, j 

Abigail R. Hoag, New York 

Joseph Hoag and wife, Vermont 
William Kennard, "| 
Thomas Hall, j Ohio 

Moses Beede, Lynn 



Ohio 
Penna. 



New Bedford 



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)wne, 1 
ay, j 



DATE NAME 

183Y— John R. Davis, 
Russell Davis, 
Susan Howland, 
Avis Keene, 
Joseph Trip & wife 
John Header & wife, 
James Jones, 
Nathaniel Austin, 
Daniel Clapp, 
Perez Peck, 

1838— Joseph Bowne, 
John Scott 
Mahlon Day 
Anna Cates, 
Edmund Cates, 
Mary B. Allen, 
Richard Mott, 
Joseph John Gurney, 
Henry Hinsdale, 
Hannah Batty, 
Charles F. Coffin, 
Alton D. Pope, 
Ruth Davis, 
Mary Shove, 
Lindley H. Hoeg, 

1839— Rufsell M. Davis, 
Seth Kelley, 
Daniel Wheeler, 
Benjamin Fry, New 
Joseph Edgerton, 
William Dewees, 
Thomas & Elizabeth 

Elizabeth Coggeshall 
Rachel Thornton, 
Ruth Davis, 
Mary Davis, 
Susan Howland, 
Isaac Lawrence, 
Sarah Tucker, 
Anna Macomber, ■) 
Mary Taber, J 

John Wilbur, 
Henry Gould, 
1840— Charles Osbom, I 
George Evans, J 
Richard Mott, 
John P. Balderston, 
Mary B. Allen, 



Lynn 

New York 



Maine 



New York 
Maryland 
New York 

Maine 

Smithfleld 

New York 

England 

New York 

Vermont 

Maine 

Maine 

Longplain 

Swansey 

Maine 

Yarmouth 

England 

Hampshire 

Ohio 

Robson, 
England 

New York 



Hopkinton 
Newport 
Indiana 

New York 
Baltimore 
Smithfleld 



* Afterwards wife of Joseph John Gurney. 



330 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



DATE NAME KESIDENCE 

1840— Susan Howland, New Bedford 
Huldah Gififord, 

Lindley M. Hoeg, N. H. 

1841— Jeremiah Hubbard, N. C. 

William Kenworth, 
Thomas & E. Bobson, "» Eng. 
James Brown. j 

Elizabeth Wing, Rhode Island 
Joseph Bowne, New York 

Richard Thomas, Baltimore 

Eli & Phebe Haines, Penna. 

Ruth Davis, 
Huldah Gifford, 
Susan Howland, 
Mary Davis, 

Anna Jenkins, "j Providence 

Maiy B. Allen, I 
John Osborne, J 
1842— Benoni Sprague, New York 

Anna Thornburgh, Indiana 

Thomas Hill, 

Dinah Gardner, 

Sybil Jones, 

Ann Jones, Maine 

Mary Davis, 

Susan Rowland, 

Huldah Gifford, 

Lydia Breed, Wears 

Huldah B. Hoeg, N. H. 

Thomas Anthony, "> R. I. 

Perez Peck, J 

Newall Ordway, "» 

Oliver Rogers, j Mass. 

1843— David Dudley, 

David Douglas, Maine 

Charles F. Coffin, Maine 

Susan Howland, 

Mary Davis, 

Daniel Clapp, Rhode Island 

E. Foster, Rhode Island 

Charles F. Coffin, "I Maine 

Joseph Metcalf, / 

Lindley M. Hoeg, N.Hampshire 

Stephen Jones, Jr., "» Maine 

Rachel W. Jones, ) 
1844— Charles Taber, ~| Lower Canada 

Paul Southwick, ( Lower Canada 



DATE NAME RESIDENCE 

1844 — David Knowles, "| Lower Canada 

Henry Wood, j New Bedford 

Abigail R. Jones, "1 

Hannah Merrill, j N. H. 

James Canney, 

Sybil Jones, 

Augustine & 

Cynthia Jones, Maine 

Jared Patterson, "I 

Josiah Morris, J Indiana 

Thomas Evans, "> Penna. 

Samuel Bettle, Jr., J 

Joseph Bowne, N. Y. 

Lindley M. Hoeg, 

New Hampshire 
James Jones & wife, 1 

Martha Hodges, j Maine 

William Kitchen, 
Zacheus Bowerman, Maine 

Harvey Derbyshire, ") Canada 
Jonathan Farris, 
1845— David Dudley, 

David Dougles, j" Maine 

Samuel Taylor, Jr., 1 Maine 
David Shove, j 

John Pease, England 

Samuel Hilles, 

Isabel Casson, England 

Stephen P. Morris, "> Gtn., Pa. 
Catharine Morris, J 
Rowland Green, Rhode Island 
Benjamin Fry, New Hampshire 
Cornelius Douglas, "1 
David Douglas, J Maine 

Susan Smith, New Jersey 

Abigail R. Hanson, N.H. 

Susan Howland, 
Anna Macomber, 
Ruth Baker, 

John Wilbur, Rhode Island 

Mary Davis, Dartmouth 

Thomas B. Gould, Rhode Island 
Nathan Page, Danvers 

Mary Davis (2d time), Danvers 
1846 — Mary Davis, Dartmouth 

Nathan Page, 



lire, "» 



INDEX 



Abbott, Dorothy (Swain), (Mrs. Tho- 
mas Abbott), 66. 

Abbott, Thomas, 66. 

Albertson, Lydia (Mrs. Henry Stan- 
ton), 221. 

Allen, Ann (Coleman), (Mrs. Edward 
Allen), 170. 

Allen, Edward, 170. 

Allen, Geoi-ge, Jr., 77. 

Allen, John, 77. 

Allen, Matthew, 77. 

Allen, Rachel (Mrs. Thomas Star- 
buck), dau. Edward Allen, 169, 170. 

Allen, Ralph, Jr., 77. 

Allen, William, 77. 

Anthony, Susanna (Mrs. Abraham 
Barker), 191. 

Anti-slavery Society, first in New 
England, 34. 

Associates chosen, 11. 

Atkinson, Sarah (Mrs. Stephen Coffln), 
235. 

Austin, Ann (Mrs. Thomas Austin), 
206. 

Austin, Deborah (Mrs. Lieutenant 
John Coffln), dau. Joseph Austin, 
31, 143, 144, 145, 161, 181, 182, 212, 
214, 217, 218, 219. 

Austin, Joseph, 21, 31, 144, 145, 161, 
169, 173, 181, 206, 210, 212, 218, 219, 
222. 

Austin, Lydia (Hussey, Macy), (Mrs. 
William R. Austin), 210. 

Austin, Mary (Mrs. Richard2 Gard- 
ner), dau. Joseph Austin, 169, 217, 
218, 221, 222. 

Austin, Rose (Mrs. Ephraim Tibbetts), 
dau. Thomas Austin, 205, 206. 

Austin, Sarah (Starbuck), (Mrs. Jo- 
seph Austin), 20, 21, 31, 144, 161, 
169, 173, 181, 206, 210, 212, 218, 219, 
222. 
Austin, Thomas, 206. 
Austin, William R., 210. 
Avent, Pliillip, 40. 
Ayer, Elizabeth (Hutchins), (Mrs. 

Thomas Ayer), 233. 
Aj'er, Mary (Mrs. Samuel Colcord), 

227, 231. 
Ayer, Thomas, fatlier Mary Ayer, 232. 

Bache, Richard, 69. 

Bache, Sarah (Franklin), (Mrs. Rich- 
ard Bache), 69. 

Bachelor, Deborah (Smith), (Mrs. Na- 
tlianicl Bachelor), 56. 



Bachelor, Deborah (Mrs. John Wing), 1 
dau. Rev. Stephen Bachelor, 56, 57, 

184, 185, 188, 190, 210. 
Bachelor, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 

Bachelor), 56. 

Bachelor, Francis, son Rev. Stephen 
Bachelor, 56. 

Bachelor, Mary (Wyman), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Bachelor), 56. 

Bachelor, Nathaniel, son Rev. Stephen 
Bachelor, 56, 57. 

Bachelor, Stephen, Rev., 54, 57, 61, 
151, 154, 167, 171, 173, 183, 184, 

185, 188, 190, 198, 201, 207, 210, 
214, 240, 241. 

Bachelor, Stephen, son Rev. Stephen 
Bachelor, 56. 

Bachelor, Theodate (Mrs. Christopher 
Hussey), dau. Rev. Stephen Bache- 
lor, 52, 56, 150, 151, 153, 154, 166, 
167, 171, 173, 183, 185, 197, 198, 201, 
206, 207, 210, 213, 214. 

Balch, Anice (Mrs. John Balch), 164. 

Balch, Benjamin, £0, 164. 

Balch, John, 164. 

Balch, Ruth, dau. Benjamin Balch, 
164. 

Balch, Sarah (Gardner), (Mrs. Benja- 
min Balch), 80, 164. 

Barker, Abigail (Keen), (Mrs. Prince 
Barker), 190. 

Barker, Abraham, son Robert Barker, 
155. 

Barker, Abraham, son Benjamin 
Barker, 190. 

Barker, Abraham, son JamesS Barker, 
191. 

Barker, Ann (Mrs. Benjamin Barker), 
dau. Abraham Barker, 190, 191. 

Barker, Barbara (Dungan), (Mrs. 
James2 Barker), 191. 

Barker, Benjamin, son Prince Barker, 
190. 

Barker, Bethiah (Folger), (Mrs. Sam- 
uel Barker), 74, 155. 

Barker, Deborah (Mrs. Benjamin 
Keen), dau. Robert Barker, 191. 

Barker, Deborah (Wing), (Mrs. Samuel 
Barker, 1st wife), 188. 

Barker, Elizabeth (Easton), (Mrs. 
William Barker), 191. 

Barker, Elizabeth (Slocum), (Mrs. 
Isaac Barker, Jr.), 190. 

Barker, Elizabeth (Tucker), (Mrs. 
JamesS Barker), 191. 



Barker, Elizabeth (Huntington), (Mrs. 

Joseph Philbrick Newhall), 189, 

190, 191. 
Barker Family, 155. 
Barker Family, connection with Nan- 
tucket, 74. 
Barker, Francis, son Robert Barker, 

155. 
Barker, Isaac, Jr., son Isaac Barker, 

Sr., 190. 
Barker, Isaac, Sr., son Robert Barker, 

74, 155. 
Barker, Jacob, son Robert Barker, 74, 

78, 155. _ 

Barker, Jamesl, from England, 191. 
Barker, James2, son Jamesi Barker, 

191. 
Barker, JamesS, son William Barker, 

191. 
Baiker, James, son Robert Barker, 

155, 194. 
Barker, Jedidah, dau. Robert Barker, 

155. 
Barker, Jedidah (Chase), (Mrs. Rob- 
ert Barker), 155, 156, 157, 193, 194. 
Barker, Josiah, 117. 
Barker, Judith, dau. of Robert, 155. 
Barker, Judith (Prence), (Mrs. Isaac 

Barker), 74, 155, 190. 
Barker, Lucy (Williams), (Mrs. Rob- 
ert Barker), 156, 190, 191. 
Barker, Lydia, dau. Robert Barker, 

154, 155. 

Barker, Lydia (Mrs. Francis Swain, 

Jr.), 152, 153. 
Barker, Margaret, dau. Robert Barker, 

155. 
Barker, Margaret (Buffum), (Mrs. 

Abraham Barker), 190. 
Barker, Mary, dau. Robert Barker, 

155. 
Barker, Prince, son Isaac Barker, 190. 
Barker, Robert, son Samuel Barker, 

74, 78, 155, 156, 157, 159, 190, 191, 

193, 194. 
Barker, Robert, descendants from, 157, 

159. 
Barker, Robert, Jr., son Robert 

Barker, 155, 191. 
Barker, Samuel, son Isaac Barker, 74, 

155, 187, 188. 

Barker, Sarah, dau^ Robert Barker, 

155. 
Barker, Sarah (Gardner), (Mrs. Robert 

Barker, 2d wife), 74, 155, 158, 159, 



333 



Earl;/ SelHers of Nantucket. 



Bark«r, Susanna (Anthony), (ilrs. 
Abraham Barkoi), 191. 

Barker, William, son Janies2 Barker, 
191. 

Barnard, Abigail (Mrs. Samuel Fel- 
lows), dau. Thomas Barnard, 228. 

Barnard, Benjamin, son Nathaniel 
Barnard, Jr., 211. 

Barnard, Bethia (Fulger), (Mrs. John 
Barnard), 64. 

Barnard, Eleanor (Mi-s. Thomas Barn- 
ard), 64, 156, 157, 159, 193, 194, 
211, 214, 218, 219, 228, 229, 230, 236. 

Barnard, Elizabeth (Macy), (Mre. 
Francis Barnard), 211. 

Barnard, Elizabeth (.Mrs. Nathaniel 
Bamard, Jr.), 211. 

Barnard, Elizabeth (Mrs. Barnabas 
Coleman), 62. 

Barnard, Eunice (Mrs. Elijah Cornell), 
dau. Reuben Barnard, 211. 

Barnard, Francis, son Benjamin 
Barnard, 211. 

Barnard, Hannah (Mrs. Benjamin Ste- 
vens), dau. Thomas Barnard, 229. 

Barnard, Joannah (Hai-vey), Mrs. Rob- 
ert Barnard), 64, 156, 1.57, 1,59, 193, 
194, 212, 214, 219. 

Bai'nard, John, son Robert Barnard, 
64. 

Barnard, Joseph, 113. 

Barnard, Judith (Gardner), (Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Bamard), 211. 

Barnard, Mary (Mrs. John Folger), 
dau. Nathaniel Barnard, 156, 192, 
193, 217, 218. 

Barnard, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel Barn- 
ard, Sr.), dau. Robert Bamard, 64, 
156, 193, 211, 212, 218, 219. 

Barnard, Nathaniel, .son Thomas Barn 
ard, 64, 65, 156, 193, 211, 218. 

Barnard, Nathaniel, Jr., son Nathan- 
iel Barnard, Sr., 211. 

Bamard, Phebe (Coleman), (Mrs. Reu- 
ben Bamard), 211, 213, 214. 

Barnard, Phebe (Coleman), family re- 
moved from Nantucket, 215. 

Bamard, Reuben, 211, 213, 214. 
Barnaid, Reuben, descendants from, 
214. 

Barnard, Robert, 9, 11, 62, 63, 64, 68, 
156, 157, 1.59, 193, 194, 212, 214, 219. 

Barnard, Stephen, 65. 
Barnard, Thomas, 4, 5, 9, 63, 156, 157, 
159, 190, 193, 194, 211, 214, 218, 219, 
228, 229, 230, 236. 
Barney, Benjamin, 181. 
Barney, Elizabeth (Mrs. William 
Rotch), dau. Benjamin Barney, 180, 
181, 182. 
Barney, Lydia (Starbuck), (Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Barney), 181. 
Bartlett, Sarah, 33. 



Batchelder, Susanna (Mrs. Ebenezer 

Webster), 57. 
Bates, James, 125. 
Bennington, Agnes (Mrs. James Gor- 

ham), 197, 203, 229. 
Bichford, Robto, 36. 
Bicknell, Lydia Spooner (Sherman), 

(Mrs. Simeon Smith Bicknell), 226. 
Biron, an Icelander, 1. 
Bishop, John, 9. 
Bond, Elizabeth (Powell), (Mrs. Her- 

rick Bond), 202. 
Bond, Herrick, 202. 
Bradford, Jael (Hobart), (Mrs. Joseph 

Bradford), 85. 
Bradford, Joseph, 85. 
Bra.yton, Judge, 145. 
Brayton, Love (Mitchell), (Mrs. Judge 

Bray ton), 145. 
Brewster Mary (Mrs. Thomas Prence), 

dau. William Brewster, 230. 
Brewster, Sarah (Collier), (Mrs. Love 

Brewster), 75. 
Brewster, William, 230. 
Breed, Keziah (Mrs. Samuel* New- 
hall), 189. 
Bridges, James, 65. 
Briggs, Sarah (Mrs. Stephen Wing), 

188. 
Brown, Abial (Mrs. Sjdvanus Hussey), 

dau. John Brown, 150. 
Brown, Abigail (Mrs. Hezediah Cart- 

wi-ight), 143. 
Brown, Hannah (Hobart), (Mrs. John 

Brown), 83, 84, 150, 157. 
Brown. John, 49, 84. 
Brown, John, Jr., S3, 150, 157. 
Brown, John, Sr., 1.50, 157. 
Brown, Rachel (Gardner), (Mrs. John 

Brown), 83, 1.50, 156, 157. 
Brown, Rachel (Mrs. James Chase), 

1.56. 
Buffum, David, 192. 
Buffum, Hepzibah (Mitchell), (Mrs. 

David Buffum), 192. 
Buffum, Joshua, banished from Eng- 
land, 90. 
Buffum, Margaret (Mrs. Abraham 

Barker), dau. David Buffum, 190, 

192. 
Bunker, Ann (Mrs. Joseph Coleman), 

dau. George Bunker, 170. ' 

Bunker, Ann (Mrs. Nathaniel Pad- 

dack), dau. William Bunker, 152, 

153, 171, 172, 199, 204, 205. 
Bunker, Anne, 105. 
Bunker, Desire (Gorham), (Mrs. Zec- 

ariah Bunker), 2.38. 
Bunker, Elizabeth (Coffin), (Mrs. Jon- 
athan Bunker), 144, 102, 208, 238. 
Bunker, Elizabeth Thorne (Clement), 
(Mrs. Nathan2 Bunker), 2.37, 238, 

240, 241. 



Bunker, George, son William Bunker, 
65, 144, 151, 153, 158, 162, 166, 170, 

171, 172, 183, 195, 198, 200, 205, 207, 
208, 209, 222. 

Bunker, Geoi-ge, son William Bunker, 
JISS. and family, 237, 238, 239, 240. 

Bunker, Jabez, 107. 

Bunker, Jabez, son William Bunker, 
195. 

Bunker, Jane (Godfrey), (Mrs. George 
Bunker), 65, 144, 151, 1.53, 158, 162, 
166, 170, 171, 172, 183, 195, 198, 200, 
205, 207, 208, 209, 222. 

Bunker, Hannah (Gardner), (Mrs. Ja- 
bez Bunker), 195. 

Bunker, Jonathan, son William Bunk- 
er, 144, 162, 208, 238. 

Bunker, Lydia (Paddack), (Mrs. Shu- 
bael Bimker), 238. 

Bunker, Martha (Mrs. Stephen Hus- 
sey), dau. George Bunker, 53, 150, 
151, 166, 167, 171, 183, 197, 198, 206, 
207, 210. 

Bunker, Mary (Mrs. Stephen Coffin), 
dau. George and Jane (Godfrey) 
Bunker, 31, 158, 169, 170, 207, 208, 
222. 

Bunker, Mary (Macy), (Mrs. William 
Bunker), 144, 153, 162, 172, 195, 
109, 205, 208, 209, 238, 239, 240. 

Bunker, Miss (Mrs. Admiral Dahl- 
gren), 237. 

Bunker, Nathan, 237, 238, 240. 

Bunker, Priscilla (Mrs. Abraham2 
Macy), dau. Samuel Bunker, 29, 
195. 

Bunker, Priscilla (Coleman), (Mrs. 
Samuel Bunker), 195. 

Bimker, Ruth (Mrs. Richard Coffin), 
dau. Jonathan Bunker, 143, 144, 162, 

207, 208. 

Bunker,' Samuel, son Jabez Bunker, 

195. 
Bunker, Shubael, 238. 
Bunker, William (Bon Coeur), 144. 

237, 238, 239, 240. 
Bunker, William, Sr., 151, 153, 154, 

158, 159, 162, 163, 166, 167, 170, 171, 

172, 173, 183, 185, 195, 198, 200, 201, 
202, 205, 207, 208, 209, 222, 223, 237. 

Bunker, William, son George Bunker, 
144, 145, 153, 162, 171, 195, 199, 205, 

208, 209, 238, 239. 
Bunker, Zecariah, 238. 

Eursell, Anna (Mrs. Silas Sears), 230. 

Capehart, Edward Everett, 227. 
Capehart, Sarah (Wadleigh), (Mrs. 

Edward Everett Capehart), 227. 
CartwTight, Abigail (Brown), (Mrs. 

Hezediah Cartwright), 143. 
Cartwright, Bethiah (Pratt), (Mrs. 

Sampson Cartwright), 143. 



/ ndex. 



333 



Cartwright, Edward, Jr., son Edward 
Cartwright, 104, 147. 

Cartwright, Edward, St., 143, 145, 147. 

Cartwright, Elizabeth (Trott), (Mrs. 
Edward Cartwright), 103, 104, 143, 
147. 

Cart;wright, Elizabeth, dau. Edward 
Cartwright, 147. 

Cartwright, Hezediah, son Sampson 
Cartwright, 143. 

Cartwright, James, son Hezediah 
Cartwright, 142, 143. 

Cartwright, John, 113. 

Cartwright, Love (Macy), (Mrs. James 
Cartwright), 142. 

Cartwright, Lydia, dau. James Cart- 
wright, 142. 

Cartwright, Mary, dau. Edward Cart- 
wright, 104. 

Cartwright, Nicholas, son Edward 
Cartwright, 104, 147. 

Cartwright, Sampson, son Edward 
Cartwright, 104, 143, 147. 

Cartwright, Susanna, dau. Edward 
Cartwright, 104. 

Cartwrite, Edward, will of, 103, 143, 
145, 147. 

Cavender, Charles, son Thomas Cav- 
ender, 165. 

Cavender, Elizabeth (Mott), (Mrs. 
Thomas Cavender), 164, 165. 

Cavender, Fanny (Mrs. Thomas Par- 
ish), 165. 

Cavender, Henry, son Thomas Caven- 
der, 165. 

Cavender, Mary (Mrs. William J. Wil- 
cox), 165. 

Cavender, Thomas S., 164, 165. 

Chace, Mareia (Mrs. George T. Pow- 
ell), 202. 

Chalkley, Thomas, his visit to' Nan- 
tucket, 120. 

Challis, Philip, 14, 63, 190. 

Challis, Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Johnson), 
190. 

Chapman, Dorothy (Swain, Abbott), 
(Mrs. Edward Chapman), 66. 

Chapman, Edward, 66. 

Charles I. of England, 241. 

Chase, Elizabeth (Philbrick), (Mrs. 
Thomas Chase), 156, 157, 193. 

Chase, Isaac, Lieutenant, son Thomas 
Chase, 156, 193. 

Chase, James, son Lieutenant Isaac 
Chase, 156. 

Chase, Jedidah (Mrs. Robert Barker), 
dau. James Chase, 155, 156, 157, 193, 
194. 

Chase, Mary (Tilton), (Mrs. Lieuten- 
ant Isaac Chase), 156. 

Chase, Peter, 192. 

Chase, Rachel (Brown), (Mrs. James 
Chase), 156. 



Chase, Thomas, 156, 157, 193. 

Chember, Robert, 37. 

Christian names of some early set- 
tlers, 94. 

Christisen, Wenlock, 94. 

Church, Sarah (Mrs. Nathan Folger), 
1,58, 162, 207. 

Clark, Elizabeth (Somerby), (Mrs. 
Nathaniell Clark), 228. 

Clark, Elizabeth (Toppan), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Clark), 228. 

Clark, Nathaniell, 228. 

Clark, Nathaniel2, son Nathaniell, 
228. 

Clark, Nathaniels, son Nathaniel2, 
227. 

Clark, Sarah (Greenleaf), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniels Clark), 227. 

Clark, Sarah (Mrs. Benjamin Dole), 
dau. Nathaniels Clark), 227. 

Claverly, Nicholas, 148. 

Clement, Ann (Harrison), (Mrs. Ja- 
cob Clement), 251. 

Clement, Elizabeth (Tilly), (Mrs. Ja- 
cob Clement), widow Nathaniel 
Cooper, 241. 

Clement, Jacob, son Jacob Clement, 
241. 

Clement, Jacob, son James Clement, 
241. 

Clement, James, son Gregory Clem- 
ent, 241. 

Clement, James, son Jacob Clement, 
241. 

Clement, Mary (Thorne), (Mrs. James 
Clement), 241. 

Clevanger, Bartholomew, 36. 

Coffin, Abigail (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
Peter Coffin), 20, 21, 27, 224, 226, 
232. 

Coffin, Abigail (Mrs. Nathaniel Gard- 
ner), dau. James Coffin, 196, 197, 
211. 

Coffin, Alexander, 113. 

Coffin and its synonym, 25. 

Coffin, Ann (Mrs. Batchelder Hussey), 
dau. Daniel Coffin, 206, 207. 

Coffin, Ann (Folger), (Mrs. Benj. Cof- 
fin), 160, 163. 

Coffin, Ann (Folger), (Mrs. Thomas 
Coffin), 43. 

Coffin, Anna (Mrs. Solomon Gardner), 
dau. Stephen Coffin, 169, 221, 222. 

Coffin, Benjamin, son Nathaniel Cof- 
fin, 160. 

Coffin, Damaris (Gayer), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Coffin), 106, 161. 

Coffin, Daniel, son Peter Coffin, 207. 

Coffin, Deborah (Austin), (Mrs. Lieu- 
tenant John Coffin), 31, 143, 145, 
161, 181, 182, 214, 217, 219. 

Coffin, Deborah (Macy), (Mrs. Benja- 
min Coffin), 160. 



Coffin, Deborah (Mrs. Thomass Macy), 
dau. Lieutenant John Coffin, 143, 

161, 181, 211. 

Coffin, Deborah (Mrs. Tristram Star- 
buck), dau. Samuel Coffin, 216, 217. 

Coffin, Dinali (Mrs. Abishai Folger), 
widow Benjamin Starbuck, 158. 

Coffin, Dinah (Mrs. Nathaniel Star^ 
buck, Jr.), dau. James Coffin, 149, 
158, 167, 171, 172, 183, 184, 193, 204, 
205, 207, 208, 216, 217, 218. 

Coffin, Dionis (Stevens) , (Mrs. Tristram 
Coffin), 24, 142, 143, 144, 145, 149, 
151, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 
167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 181, 184, 185. 
190, 193, 194, 197, 198, 200, 201, 202, 
204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 212, 214, 
217, 218, 219, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 
229, 230, 232, 235, 236, 239. 

Coffin, Eliza (Mrs. Benjamin H. Yar- 
nall), 163. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 
Barnard, Jr.), 211. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Brown, Greenly), 
(Mrs. Sir Isaac Coffin), 43. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Stratton), (Mrs. 
Daniel Coffin), 207. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Barnes), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Coffin), 42. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jonathan 
Bunker), dau. James Coffin, 144, 

162, 163, 208, 209, 225. 

Coffin, Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen Green- 
leaf), dau. Tristram Coffin, 28, 47, 
228, 229, 230. 

Coffin, Enoch, son Joshua and Mar- 
garet (Morse) Coffin, 33. 

Coffin, Experience (Look), (Mrs. Ste- 
phen Coffin, Jr.), 158. 

Coffin family, early wills of, 33. 

Coffin, first settler of the name, 24. 

Coffin, Hepzibah (Harker), (Mrs. Jon- 
athan Coffin, Sr.), 224. 

Coffin, Hepzibah (Mrs. Thaddeus Wa- 
terman), dau. Jonathan Coffin, 224, 
226. 

Coffin, Hope (Gardner), (Mrs. John 
Coffin, Esq.), 143, 145, 162, 163, 207, 
210. 

Coffin, Isaac, Sir, Admiral, 41, 42. 

Coffin, Isaac, Sir, descent from Tris- 
tram Coffin, 42. 

Coffin, Isaac, Sir, visits Nantucket, 
44. 

Coffin, James, 9, 11, 30, 103, 105. 

Coffin, James, son Tristram CofBn, 
Sr., 28, 143, 144, 145, 149, 151, 160, 
162, 163, 167, 172, 173, 184, 185, 193, 
194, 197, 201, 204, 205, 208, 209. 210. 
214, 217, 218, 219, 224, 225, 226, 238. 

Coffin, James, son James, 225. 

Coffin, Jane (Heard), (Mrs. Tristram 
Coffin, of 4th generation), 232. 



334 



Early Settlers of Nantuchet, 



Coffin, Joan, 24. 

Coffin, John, brother Sir Isaac Coffin, 
41. 

C<.ffln, John, son of Tristram Coffin, 
Sr., died in infancy, 28. 

Coffin, John, Esq., son James Coffin, 
143, 145, 162, 163, 207, 210. 

Coffin, John, Lieutenani, son Tristram 
Coffin, Sr., 31, 143, 145, 161, 181, 
182, 214, 217, 219. 

Coffin, John, Lieutenant, his commis- 
sion, 31. 

Coffin, Jonathan, Jr., son Jonathan 
Coffin, Sr., 224. 

Coffin, Jonatlian, Sr., son James Cof- 
fin, 224. 

Coffin, Joshua, 53. 

Coffin, Joshuas, 33. 34. 

Coffin, Joshuas, children of, 33. 

Coffin, Joshuae, son Joshuas Coffin 
and Margaret (Morse) Coffin, 33. 

Coffin, Judith (Somerby), (Mrs. Tris- 
tram Coffin, Jr.), 28, 228. 

Coffin, Judith (Mrs. Francis Macy), 
dau. Richard Coffin, 143. 

Coffin, Lucretia (Mrs. James Mott), 
dau. Thomas Coffin, 163. 

Coffin, Margaret (Morse), (Mrs. Joshua 
Coffin), 33. 

Coffin, Martha (Mrs. Peter Pelham), 
dau. Thomas Coffin, 163. 

Coffin, Mary (Mrs. James Coffin), dau. 
John and Abigail Severance ^ 28, 
143, 144, 149, 151, 160, 162, 163, 167, 
172, 173, 184, 193, 194, 197, 201, 204, 
205, 208, 209, 210, 214, 217, 218, 219, 
224, 225, 226, 238. 

Coffin, Mary (Bunker), (Mrs. Stephen 
Coffin, Sr.), 31, 158, 159, 169, 207, 
222. 

Coffin, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr.), dau. Tristram Coffin, 
Sr., 29, 142, 149, 150, 151, 167. 169, 
170, 171, 172, 173, 181, 183, 185, 193, 
197, 198, 199, 20O, 201, 204, 205, 206, 
207, 208, 212, 216, 217, 218, 219, 240. 

Coffin, Mary (Mrs. Richard Pink- 
ham), dau. James3 Coffin, 196, 197, 
203, 204, 209. 

Coffin, Maiy, dau. Joshuas and Mar- 
garet (Morse) Coffin, 33. 

Coffin, Mary (Mrs. Solomon Temple), 
dau. Thomas Coffin, 163. 

Coffin, Miriam (Gardner), (Mrs. Sam- 
uel Coffin), 217. 

Coffin, Nathaniel, 41. 

Coffin, Nathaniel, son James Coffin, 
42, 160. 

Ccffin, Nathaniel, son William Coffin, 
42. 

Coffin, Peleg, Esq., 2. 

Coffin, Peter, 4, 5, 9, 21. 



Coffin, Peter, Hon., son Tristram Cof- 
fin, Sr., 27, 68, 232. 

Coffin, Peter, son Stephen, 207. 

Coffin, Priscilla (Mrs. Jonathan Coffin, 
Jr., 224. 

Coffin, Richard, son John Coffin, Esq., 
143, 162, 207. 

Coffin, Richard, Sir, 24. 

Coffin, Ruth (Bunker), (Mrs. Richard 
Coffin), 143, 162, 207. 

Coffin, Ruth (Gardner), (Mrs. James 
Coffin), 225. 

Coffin, Ruth (Mrs. Williiim Folger), 
dau. Richard Coffin, 161, 162, 206, 
207. 

Coffin, Sally, dau. Thomas Coffin, 163. 

Coffin, Samuel, son Lieutenant John 
Coffin, 217. 

Coffin, Sarah, dau. Joshuas and Mar- 
garet (Morse) Coffin, 33. 

Coffin School on Nantucket, 41, 44. 

Coffin, Stephen, Jr., son Stephen Cof- 
fin, Sr., 158. 

Coffin, Stephen, son Tristram Coffin, 
Jr., 235. 

Coffin, Stephen, son Tristram Coffin, 
Sr., 31, 158, 159, 169, 207, 222. 

Coffin, Thomas, 43. 

Coffin, Thomas, son Benjamin Coffin, 
160, 163. 

Coffin, Thomas M., son Thomas Coffin, 
163. 

Coffin, Tristram, Jr., son of Tristram 
Coffin, Sr., 9, 11, 28, 34, 68, 228, 235, 
236. 

Coffin, Tristram, Sr., 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 24, 
25, 26, 28, 48, 68, 142, 143, 144, 145, 
149, 151, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 
167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 181, 182, 184, 
185, 190, 193, 194, 197, 198, 200, 201, 
202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 212, 
214, 217, 218, 219, 222, 223, 224, 225, 
226, 229, 230, 232, 235, 236, 239, 240, 
241. 

Coffin, Tristram, his commission, 26. 

Coffin, Tristram, descendants of, 31. 

Coffin, Tristram, of 3d generation, son 
of Peter Coffin, of 2d generation, 
232. 

Coffin, Tristram, son Tristram Coffin, 
of 3d generation, 232. 

Coffin, William, son Nathaniel Coffin, 
42. 

Coffin, word signifies, 24. 

Coffing, " An," dau. Nicolas Coffing, 
37. 

Coffing, Johan, dau. Lionell Coffing, 
37. 

Coffing, Johan, dau. Nicolas Coffing, 
37. 

Coffing, John, son Nicolas Coffing, 37. 

Coffing, Lionell, 37. 



Coffing, Nicolas, son Nicolas, execu- 
tor, 37. 

Coffing, Philip, 37. 

Ccfflng, Richard, son Lionell Coffing, 
37. 

Coffing, Thomas, 37. 

Coffing, Tristram, son Philip Coffing, 
37. 

Coffyn, Ann, dau. Nicholas Coffyn, 35. 

Coffyn, Deborah, dau. Peter Coffyn, 
39, 40. 

Coffyn, Eunice, dau. Peter Coffyn, 39, 
40. 

Coffyn, Johan (Mrs. Nicholas Coffyn), 
34. 

Coffyn, Johan (Mrs. Peter Coffyn), 

38, 40. 

Coffyn, Jolian, dau. Peter Coffyn, 39, 

40. 
C-offyn, John, son Nicholas Coffyn, 35, 

36. 
Coffyn, John, son Peter Coffyn, 39, 

40. 
Coffyn, Mary, dau, Peter Coffyn, 

39, 40. 

Coffyn, " Nichas," brother Peter Cof- 
fyn, 40. 

Coffyn, Nicholas, son Nicholas, 34, 
35, 36. 

Coft'yn, Nicholas, grandfather Tristram 
Coffin, Sr., 33. 

" Coffyn, Nicholas," will, 33. 

Coffyn, Peter, son Nicholas Coffyn, 34. 

Coffyn, Peter, will of, 38. 

Coffyn, Tristriam, son Peter Coffyn, 
England, 38, 39. 

Coggeshall, Ann (Mrs. Peter Easton), 
dau. John Coggeshall, 191, 192, 194. 

Coggeshall, Caleb, son Joshua Cogge- 
shall, 216. 

Coggeshall, Caleb, son Job Cogge- 
shall, 216, 220. 

Coggeshall, Deborah (Mrs. Paul 
Macy), dau. Job Coggeshall, 216. 

Coggeshall, Deborah (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
Job Coggeshall), 216. 

Coggeshall, Elizabeth (Hosier), (Mrs. 
Caleb Coggeshall), 216, 220. 

Coggeshall, Giles H., son Caleb Cog- 
geshall, 219. 

Coggeshall, Joan (West), (Mrs. Joshua 
Coggeshall), 216, 219. 

Coggeshall, Job, son Caleb Cogge- 
shall, 216. 

Coggeshall, John, 192, 194, 216, 219. 

Coggeshall, Joshua, son John Cogge- 
shall, 216, 219. 

Coggeshall, Marianna (Walters), (Mrs. 
Giles H. Coggeshall), 219. 

Coggeshall, Mary (Stanton), (Mrs. 
John Coggeshall), 192, 216. 

Coggeshall, Mercy (Mitchell), (Mrs. 
Caleb Coggeshall), 216. 



Index. 



335 



Colcord, Ann (Mrs. Edward Colcord), 
227, 230, 231, 232. 

Colcord, Deborah (Mrs. Tristram Cof- 
fin, of 3d generation), 232. 

Colcord, Ebenezeri, son Samuel Col- 
cord, 227. 

Cclcord, Ebenezer2, son Ebenezeri 
Colcord, 227. 

Colcord, Edward, 227, 230, 231, 232. 

Colcord, Edward, son Jonathan Col- 
cord, 231. 

Colcord, Hannah (Fellows), (Mrs. 
Ebenezeri Colcord), 227. 

Colcord, Jane (Coffin), (Mrs. Edward 
Colcord), 231, 232. 

Colcord, John, son Ebenezer2 Colcord, 
227. 

Colcord, Jonathan, son Samuel Col- 
cord, 231. 

Colcord, Lydia (Morrell), (Mrs. John 
Colcord), 227. 

Colcord, Mary (Ayer), (Mrs. Samuel 
Colcord), 227, 231. 

Colcord, Mary Pennypacker (Walker), 
(Mrs. Tristram Coffin Colcord), 231. 

Colcord, Patience (Stevens), (Mrs. Eb- 
enpzer2 Colcord), 227. 

Colcord, Peter, son Edward and Jane 
Colcord, 231. 

Colcord, Phebe (Hamilton), (Mrs. 
Peter Colcord), 231. 

Colcord, Samuel, son Edward Colcord, 
227, 231, 232, 233. 

Colcord, Sarah (Mrs. Dolei Wadley), 
dau. John Colcord, 227. 

Colcord, Tristram Coffin, later Coffin 
Colket, 231, 232. 

Coleman, Andrew, son Enoch Cole- 
man, 73. 

Coleman, Ann (Mrs. Edward Allen), 
dau. Joseph Coleman, 170. 

Coleman, Ann (Bunker), (Mrs. Joseph 
Coleman), 170. 

Coleman, Barnabas, son John Cole- 
man, Jr., 62, 150. 

Ccleman, Benjamin, son Thomas Cole- 
man, 61. 

Coleman, Daniel, son Solomon Cole- 
man, 213. 

Coleman, Deliverance (Swett), (Mrs. 
Solomon Coleman), 213. 

Coleman, Elihu, 29. 

Coleman, Elihu, son Jethro Coleman, 
198. 

Coleman, Elizabeth (Barnard), (Mrs. 
Barnabas Coleman), 62. 

Coleman, Elizabeth (Mrs. Abraham 
Macy), 195, 198, 201. 

Coleman, Elizabeth (Mooers), (Mrs. 
Daniel Coleman), 213. 

Coleman, Elizabeth (Macy), (Mrs. 
Elihu Coleman), 198. 

Coleman, Enoch, son Jeremiah, 73. 



Coleman, Hepzibah (Mrs. John Rus- 
sell, Jr.), dau. Barnabas Coleman, 
149, 150, 151. 

Coleman, Hepzibah (Wing), (Mrs. 
William Coleman, Sr.), 186. 

Coleman, Isaac, 17. 

Coleman, Isaac, son Thomas Cole- 
man, 61. 

Coleman, Jeremiah, son John Cole- 
man, 73. 

Coleman, Jethro, son John Coleman, 
198. 

Coleman, Joanna, dau. Thomas Cole- 
man, 61. 

Coleman, Joanna (Folger), (Mrs. John 
Coleman), 73, 150, 196, 198, 213. 

Coleman, John, 8, 73. 

Coleman, John, Jr., son John Cole- 
man, Sr., 132, 150, 196, 198, 213. 

Coleman, John, Sr., son Thomas Cole- 
man, 8, 150, 196, 198, 213. 

Coleman, Joseph, son Thomas Cole- 
man, 61, 170. 

Coleman, Lydia (Paddack), (Mrs. 
Jethro Coleman), 198. 

Coleman, Lydia, dau. Andrew Cole- 
man, 73. 

Coleman, Lydia Wing, dau. William 
Coleman, Sr. (Lydia unmarried), 
186. 

Coleman, Margery (Mrs. Thomas Cole- 
man), 61. 

Coleman, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Cole- 
man), 61. 

Coleman, Natlianiel, 29. 

Coleman, Nathaniel, son of Barnabas 
Coleman, 61, 62. 

Coleman, Phebe (Mrs. Reul)en Bar- 
nard), 211, 213, 214. 

Coleman, Priscilla, 132. 

Coleman, Priscilla (Mrs. Samuel 
Bunker), dau. John Coleman, 195, 
196. 

Coleman, Priscilla (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
John Coleman, Jr.), 150, 196, 198. 

Coleman, Rachel (Hussey), (Mrs. 
Barnabas Coleman), C2, 150. 

Coleman, Solomon, son John Coleman, 
213. 

Coleman, Susanna (Mrs. Thomas Cole- 
man), 61, 62, 150, 151, 170, 173, 186, 
196, 198, 201, 202, 213, 214. 

Coleman, Thomas, 9, 11, 60, 61, 62, 
68, 150, 151, 170, 173, 186, 196, 198, 
201, 202, 213, 214. 

Coleman, Tobias, son Thomas Cole- 
man, 61. 

Coleman, Wm., Jr., son William, Sr., 
186. 

Coleman, William, Sr., 186. 

Colket, Coffin, 231, 232. 

Colket, Mary Pennypacker (Walker), 
(Mrs. Coffin Colket), 231. 



Collier, Elizabeth, dau. William Col- 
lier, 75. 
Collier, Jane (Mrs. William Collier), 

192. 
Collier, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Prence), 

dau. William Collier, 156, 157, 159, 

191, 192, 194, 230. 
Collier, Mary, granddaughter William 

Collier, 75. 
Collier, Rebecca, dau. William Col- 

Her, 75. 
Collier, Sarah, dau. William Collier, 

75. 
Collier, William, 75, 156, 157, 159, 192, 

194. 
Conant, Roger, 80. 
Contract, a imique, 101. 
Cope, Caroline R., dau. Thomas Pim 

Cope, 164. 
Cope, Mary (Drinker), (Mrs. Tlioma* 

Pim Cope), 164. 
Cope, Thomas Pim, 164. 
Copeland, John, 59. 
Cornell, Alonzo B., Hon., son Ezra 

Cornell, 211. 
Cornell connection with Nantucket, 

211. 
Cornell, Elijah, 211. 
Cornell, Eunice (Barnard), (Mrs. Eli- 
jah Cornell), 211. 
Cornell, Ezra, son Elijah Cornell, 211. 
Cornell Family, 215. 
Cornell, Hannah (Thorne), (Mrs. 

Richard Cornell), 215. 
Cornell, John, 215. 
Cornell, Joshua, son John Cornell, 

215. 
Cornell, Mary (Russell), (Mrs. John 

Cornell), 215. 
Cornell, Mary Ann (Wood), (Mrs. 

Ezra Cornell), 211. 
Cornell, Richard, son John Cornell, 

215. 
Cornell, Sarali (Thorne), (Mrs. Joshua 

Cornell), 215. 
Coule, James, 37. 
Cranston, Mary (Clarke), (Mrs. John 

Stanton), 221. 
Cushman, Robert, 79. 
Cuthbertson, Cuthbert, 148. 
Cutts, John, 53. 



Davis, Anna (Mrs. Richard Price Hal- 
lo well), 165. 

Davis, Charles, 165. 

Davis, Edward Morris, 164, 165. 

Davis, Ellen (Bliss, Warner), (Mrs. 
William Morris Davis), 165. 

Davis, Henry Corbit, 165. 

Davis intermarriages, 69. 

Davis, Maria (Mott), (Mrs. Edward 
Morris Davis), 164, 165. 



336 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



Davis, Martha (Mellor), (Mrs. Henry 

Corbit Davis, 1st wife), 165. 
Davis, Naomi (Lawton), (Mrs. Henry 

Corbit Davis, 2d wife), 165. 
Davis, William Morris, 165. 
Deeds of purchase, 1, 7. 
De Sehweinitz, Bernard, 165. 
De Schweinitz, Ellen (Lord), (Mrs. 

Bernard de Schweinitz), 165. 
Dewey, Margaret (Mrs. Edmund Ho- 

bart), 151, 157. 
Dillingham, Deborah (Mrs. Daniel 

Wing, Jr.). 184. 
Dillingham, Edward, 57, 58. 
Dole, Benjamin, 227. 
Dole, Elizabeth (Mrs. Josephs Wad- 
ley), dau. Benjamin Dole, 227. 
Dole, Sarah (Clark), (Mrs. Benjamin 

Dole), 227. 
Dole, Sarah (Mrs. Edmund Greenleaf), 

46, 228, 2.30. 
Drinker Family, 80. 
Drinker, Henry, son Joseph Drinker, 

164. 
Drinker, John, 164. 

Drinker, John, son Henry Drinker, 164. 
Drinker, Joseph, son John Drinker, 

164. 
Drinker, Mary (Gottier), (Mrs. Henry 

Drinker), 164. 
Di-inker, Mary (Janney), (Mrs. Joseph 

Drinker), 164. 
Drinker, Mary, dau. John Drinker, 

164. 
Drinker, Rachel (Reynear), (Mrs. 

.John Drinker), 164. 
Drinker, Ruth (Balch), (Mrs. John 

Drinker), 164. 
Dungan, Barbara (Mrs. JamesZ 

Barker), 191. 
Durant, Arthur, 40. 
Dyer, Mary, 94. 

Earle Family, 166. 

Earle, John Milton, 167. 

Earle, John Milton, family of, 166. 

Earle, Mary (Hussey), (Mrs. Thomas 

Earle), 167, 168. 
Earle, Plimton, 34, 35. 
Earle, Sarah (Hussey), (Mrs. John '. 

Milton Earle), 167. 
Earle, Thomas, 167, 168. 
Earle, Thomas, family of, 166. 
Easton, Ann (Coggeshall), (Mrs. Peter 

Easton), 191, 194. 
Easton, Elizabeth (Mrs. William 

Barker), dau. Peter Easton, 191. 
Easton, Nicholas, of England, 191, 

194. 
Easton, Peter, son Nicholas Easton, 

191, 194. 
Edwards, Nicholas, 36. 
Eric, Earl of Norway, 1. 



Estes, Hannah (Mrs. Daniels New- 
hall), 189. 

Evans, Ann (Thompson, Hodgdon), 
(Mrs. Robert Evans, 2d wife), 235. 

Evans, Elizabeth (Hanson), (Mrs. Jo- 
seph Evans), 235. 

Evans, Joseph, son Joseph Evans, 235. 

Evans, Joseph, son Robert Evans, 235. 

Evans, Mercy (Home), (Mrs. Joseph 
Evans), 235. 

Evans, Robert, 235, 236. 

Evelyn, George, 52. 

Ewer, Thomas, 77. 

Farrar, Susanna (Mrs. Josephs New- 
hall), 189. 

Fellows, Abigail (Barnard), (Mrs. 
Samuel Fellows), 228. 

Fellows, Hannah (Mrs. Ebenezerl Col- 
cord), dau. Samuel Fellows, 227, 
228. 

Fellows, Samuel, 228. 

Fforrett, James, 5. 

First Episcopal Church of Lynn, 54. 

First ship in British waters after the 
Revolution, 180. 

First vessel built in New Bedford, 180. 

Folger, Abiah, dau. Peter Folger, 69. 

Folger, Abishai, son Nathan Folger, 
114, 155, 158, 161, 206, 207. 

Folger, Ann (Mrs. James Mitchell), 
dau. Jethro Folger, 192, 217. 

Folger, Ann (Mrs. Thomas CofHn), 43. 

Folger, Ann (Mrs. Benjamin Coffin), 
dau. William Folger, 160, 161, 163. 

Folger, Anna, 167. 

Folger, Barzillai, son Nathan Folger, 
71. 

Folger, Benjamin, 3, 113. 

Folger, Benjamin Franklin, 3. 

Folger, Bethiah, dau. of Peter Folger, 
64. 

Folger, Bethiah (Mrs. Samuel Barker), 
dau. John Folger, 74, 1.55, 156. 

Folger, Charles James, 78. 

Folger, Dinah (Starbuck), (Mrs. Abi- 
shai Folger, 2d wife), 155, 1.58. 

Folger, Dorcas (Mrs. Joseph Pratt), 

, dau. Peter Folger, 143, 144. 

"Folger, Eleazer, son Peter Folger, 69, 
71, 105, 114, 158, 162, 207, 214. 

Folger, Eleazer, Jr., son Eleazer Fol- 
ger, 69, 107. 

Folger, Elezer, 11. 

Folger, Elizabeth (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
Walter Folger), 71. 

Folger, Experience (Mrs. John Swain, 
Jr.), dau. Peter Folger, 152. 

Folger Family, 07. 

Folger, Frederick, 117. 

Folger, Jethro, son John Folger, 192, 

' 217. 



Folger, Joanna (Mrs. John Coleman, 
Sr.), dau. Peter Folger, 73, 150, 196, 
198, 213. 

Folger, John, son Peter Folger, 156, 
192, 217. 

Folger, Lydia (Mrs. Zaecheus Hussey), 
dau. William Folger, 206. 

Folger, Mary (Barnard), (Mrs. John 
Folger), 156, 192, 217. 

Folger, Mary (Starbuck), (Mrs. Jethro 
Folger), 192, 217. 

Folger, Mary (Morrell), (Mrs. Peter 
Folger), 69, 144, 150, 151, 152, 153, 
1.56, 157, 158, 159, 162, 163, 167, 192, 
194, 197, 199, 201, 202, 207, 210, 213, 
214, 217, 219, 225, 226. 

Folger, Nathan, son Eleazer Folger, 
71, 114, 158, 162, 207. 

Folger, Patience (Mrs. Bbenezer 
Harker), dau. Peter Folger, 225. 

Folger, Peter, 3, 9, 103, 144, 150, 151, 
152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 163, 
167, 192, 194, 197, 199, 201, 202, 207, 
210, 213, 214, 217, 219, 225, 226. 

Folger, Peter, son John Folger, 67, 
69. 

Folger, Phebe, 167. ' 

Folger, Phebe (Mrs. Uriel Hussey), 
166, 167. 

Folger, Phebe (Coleman), (Mrs. Bar- 
zillai Folger), 71. 

Folger, Reuben, 113. 

Folger, Ruth (Coffin), (Mrs. William 
Folger), 161, 206. 

Folger, Sarah, 167. 

Folger, Sarah (Gardner), (Mrs. Eleazer 
Folger), 71, 158, 162, 207, 214. 

Folger, Sarah (Mayhew), (Mrs. Abishai 
Folger, 1st wife), 161, 206. 

Folger, Sarah (Mrs. Tristram Hussey), 
166. 

Folger, Sarah (Church), (Mrs. Nathan 
Folger), 158, 162, 207. 

Folger, Sarah (Mrs. Hezekiah Gard- 
ner), dau. Abishai Folger, 155, 158. 

t'olger, Sarah (Mrs. Anthony Odar), 
dau. Eleaaer Folger, 213, 214. 

Folger, Timothy, 114, 117. 

Folger, Timothy, son Abishai Folger, 
114. 

l''olger, Walter, son Barzillai Folger, 
Sr., 71. 

Folger, Walter, Jr., son Walter Fi 1- 
ger, 71. 

Folger, Walter, clock. 71. 

Folger, William, son Abishai Folger, 
161, 206. 

Foot, Patience, 106. 

Foulger, Eleazer, 11. 

r'oulger, Peter, 11. 

Franciscus, Albert H., 174. 

Franciscus, Susan (Swift), (Mrs. Al- 
bert H. Franciscus), 174. 



Index. 



337 



Franklin, Abiah (Folger), (Mrs. Jo- 
siah Franklin), G9. 

Franklin, Benjamin, son Josiah Frank- 
lin, 69. 

Franklin, Deborah (Read), (Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Franklin),. 69. 

Franklin, Josiah, 69. 

Freeman, Edward, 58. 

Freeman, Joanna (Picket), (Mrs. 
Jolm-t Freeman), 229. 

Freeman, Johnl, 229, 230. 

Freeman, John2, son. Johnl, 229. 

Freeman, Johns, son John2, 229. 

Freeman, John*, son Johns, 229. 

Freeman, Mercy (Prence), (Mrs. Johnl 
Freeman), 229. 

Freeman, Mercy (Watson), (Mrs. 
Johns Freeman), 229. 

Fieeman, Sarah (Merrick), (Mrs. 
John2 Freeman), 229. 

Freeman, Sarah (Mrs. Stephen Gor- 
ham), dau. John Freeman, 229. 

Frier, Margaret (Mrs. Thomas Gardi- 
ner), 81, 144, 150, 151, 157, 158, 159, 
161, 162, 163, 167, 169, 172, 173, 181, 
182, 196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 
205, 208, 209, 212, 214, 218, 219, 222, 
•223, 225, 226. 

Gardiner, Damaris (Shattuck), (Mrs. 
Thomas Gardiner), 81, 86. 

Gardiner, Margaret (Frier), (Mrs. 
Thomas Gardiner), 81, 144, 150, 151, 
157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 167, 169, 
172, 173, 181, 182, 196, 197, 199, 200, 
201, 202, 204, 205, 208, 209, 212, 214, 
218, 219, 222, 223, 225, 226, 240. 

Gardiner, Sarah (Mrs. Benjamin 
Balch), 164. 

Gardiner, Thomas, 79, 80, 81, 144, 145, 
150, 151, 157, 158, 159, ICl, 162, 163, 
164, 167, 169, 172, 173, 181, 182, 196, 
197, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 208, 
209, 212, 214, 218, 219, 222, 223, 225, 
226, 240, 241. 

Gardner, Abigail (Coffin), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Gardner), 196, 211. 

Gardner, Anna (Coffin), (Mrs. Solo- 
mon Gardner), 169, 221. 

Gardner, Deborah, 18. 

Gardner, Deborah (Mrs. John Macy, 
Sr.), dau. Richai'd Gardner, 143, 149, 
161, 181, 195, 196, 198, 199, 203, 204, 
211, 221, 222. 

Gardner, Dinah (Mrs. David Macy), 
dau. Solomon Gardner, 221. 

Gardner, Dorcas (Mrs. Dr. Paid 
Swift), 169, 173, 174. 

Gardner, Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen Gor- 
ham), dau. James Gardner, 171, 172, 
199, 200, 203, 204, 239. 

Gardner, Eunice, 107. 

Gardner Family, 79. 



Gardner, George, 87. 

Gardner, Gideon, 113. 

Gardner, Gideon, son Hezekiali, 155. 

Gardner, Hannah (Mrs. Jabez Bunk- 
er), dau. Nathaniel Gardner, 195. 

Gardner, Hezekiah, 155. 

Gardner, Hope (Mrs. John Coffin, 
Esq.), dau. Richard Gardner, 143, 
144, 145, 162, 163, 207, 209, 210. 

Gardner, James, son Richard, 172, 
200, 204, 240. 

Gardner, John, son Thomas Gardiner, 
79, 82, 83, 84. 

Gardner, John, Captain, son Thomas 
Gardiner, 151, 157, 225, 226. 

(rardner, John, Captain, his commis- 
sion, S3. 

Gardner, Joseph, son Richard Gard- 
ner, 102. - 

Gardner, Judith, 107. 

Gardner, Judith (Mrs. Benjamin 
Barnard), dau Nathaniel Gardner, 
211. 

Gaidner, Lion, 81. 

Gardner, Mary, 128. 

Gardner, Mary (Austin), (Mrs. Rieh- 
ard2 Gardner), 169, 217, 218, 221. 

Gardner, Mary (Gorham), (Mrs. 
Prince Gardner), 186. 

Gardner, Mary (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
James Gardner), 172, 20O, 204, 240: 

Gardner, Mary, dau. John Gardner, 
225. 

Gardner, JIary S. (Mrs. Abralram R. 
Wing), 186, 187. 

Gardner, Miriam (Mrs. John Worth), 
dau. Richard Gardner, 196, 197, 199, 
200, 204, 205, 222. 

Gardner, Miriam (Mrs. Samuel Coffin), 
217. 

Gardner, Nathaniel, son Richard Gard- 
ner, 196, 211. 

Gardner, Paul, son Solomon Gardner, 
169. 

Gardner, Prince, 186. 

Gardner, Priscilla (Grafton), (Mrs. 
John Gardner), 151, 157, 225, 226. 

Gardner, Rachel (Mrs. John Brown, 
Jr.), dau. Capt. John Gardner, 83, 
150, 151, 157. 

Gardner, Rachel (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
Paul Gardner), 169. 

Gardner, Richard, 11, 18, 101, 105, 107, 
122. 

Gardner, Richard2, son Richardl 
Gardner, 144, 169, 217, 218, 221. 

Gardner, Richard, son Thomas Gardi- 
ner, 79, 81, 82, 86, 143, 144, 145, 149, 
150, 151, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 167, 
169, 172, 173, 181, 182, 196, 197, 199, 
200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 208, 209, 211, 
212, 214, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 240, 
241. 



Gardner, Ruth (Mrs. James Coffin), 
dau. John Gardner, 225. 

Gardner, Sarah (Mrs. Eleazer Folger), 
dau. Richard Gardner, 158, 162, 207, 
208, 214. 

Gardner, Sarah (Mrs. Robert Barker), 
dau. Abishai Folger and widow Hez- 
ekiah Gardner, 74, 155, 159, 159. 

Gardner, Sarah (Shattuck), (Mrs. 
Richardl Gardner), 18, 81, 86, 143, 

144, 149, 151, 158, 1.59, 161, 162, 163, 
167, 169, 172, 173, 181, 182, 196, 197, 

199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 208, 209, 
211, 212, 214, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 
240. 

Gaidner, Sarah, dau. Thomas Gardi- 
ner, 80. 

Gardner, Solomon, son Richard Gard- 
ner, Jr., 169, 221. 

Gardner, Susanna (Hussey), (Mrs. 
Zcnas Gardner), 169. 

Gardner, Zenas, son Paul Gardner, 
169. 

Gayer & Bunker, sm-s-eyors, 147. 

Gayer, Damaris (Mi'S. Nathaniel Cof- 
fin), dau. William Gayer, 105, 107, 
160, 161. 

Gayer, Dorcas (Starbuck), (Mrs. Wil- 
liam Gayer), 142, 161, 163, 170, 181, 
182. 

Gayer, Dorcas (Jlrs. Jethro Starbuck), 
dau. William Gayer, 142, 169, 170, 
181. 

Gayer (or Geare), William, 21, 142, 

145, 147, 161, 163, 170, 181, 182. 
Gayer, William, Jr., son William 

Gayer, 105. 

Gayer, William, will of, 105. 

Gibbons Family, 168. 

Gifford, William, 77. 

Gillespie, Mrs. E. D., 69. 

Godbertson, Godbert, 148. 

Godfrey, Jane (Mrs. Richard Swain), 
widow George Bunker, 151, 153, 158, 
162, 166, 170, 171, 172, 183, 195, 198, 

200, 205, 207, 208, 209, 222, 238, 239, 
240. 

Goldsmith, Ralph, 91. 

Gorges, Ferdinand, Sir, 4. 

Gorham, Agnes (Bennington), (Mrs. 

James Gorham), 197, 203, 229, 238, 

239. 
Gorham, Barney, son Stephen, 229. 
Gorham, Desire (Howland), (Mrs. 

John Gorham, Sr.), 171, 173, 196, 

109, 201, 202, 203, 209, 229, 238, 239. 
Gorham, Desire (Mrs. Zecariah 

Bunker), 238. 
Gorham, Eliza, 29. 
Gorham, Elizabeth (Gardner), (Mrs. 

Stephen Gorliam), 171, 199, 203. 
Gorham, James, 197, 203, 229, 238, 

239. 



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Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



Gorham, Jane (Johnson), (Mrs. Bar- 
ney Gorham), 229. 

Gorham, Jolin, son John and Desire 
Gorham, 239. 

Gorham, John, Jr., 171, 199, 203, 230. 

Gorham, John, Sr., sou Ralph Gorliam, 
171, 173, 196, 199, 201, 202, 203, 209, 
229, 238, 239, 241. 

Gorham, Joseph, son John Gorham, 
229. 

Gorham, Josiah, son Joseph Gorham, 
229. 

Gorham, Lois (Mrs. Jonathan Macy, 
Sr.), dau. Stephen Gorham, 198, 
199, 203. 

Gorliam, Lydia (Mrs. Joseph Worth), 
dau. Shubael Gorliam, 195, 196. 

Gorham, Mary (Otis), (Mrs. John 
Gorham, Jr.), 171, 199, 203, 230, 
239. 

Gorham, Mary (Mrs. Prince Gardner), 
186. 

Gorham, Priscilla (Sears), (Mrs. Jo- 
siah Gorham), 229. 

Gorham, Puella (Hussey), (Mrs. Shu- 
bael Gorham, Sr.), 196, 238. 

Gorham, Ralph, son James Gorham, 
196, 199, 201, 202, 209, 229, 230, 238, 
2.39, 241. 

G 01 ham, Sarah (Freeman), (Mrs. Ste- 
phen Gorham), 229. 

Gorham, Sarah Jane (Mrs. Elbridge 
Gerry Pierce), dau. Barney Gorham, 
229. 

Gorham, Sarah Sturgis (Mrs. Joseph 
Gorham), 229. 

Gorham, Shubael, son John and Desire 
Gorham, 196, 238. 

Gorham, Stephen, son Joiin Gorham, 
Jr., 171, 199, 203, 239. 

Gorham, Stephen, son Josiah Gor- 
ham, 229. 

Gorham, Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Pad- 
dack), dau. Stephen Gorham, 171. 

Gosnold, 2. 

Gottier, Mary (Mrs. Henry Drinker), 
164. 

Grafton, Priscilla (Mrs. John Gard- 
ner), 151, 157, 225, 226. 

Gray, Alice (Mrs. Sylvanus Hussey, 
Jr.), 183. 

Greenfield, Thomas, 77. 

Greenleaf, Edmund, 28, 228, 230, 235, 
236. 

Greenleaf, Edmund (first to come to 

America), 46. 
Greenleaf, Edmund, will of, 40. 

Greenleaf, Elizabeth (CoEBn), (Mrs. 
Captain Stephen Greenleaf), 28, 47, 
228, 230, 235, 236. 
Greenleaf Family, 46, 47. 

Greenleaf, Hester (Weare or Wire), 
(Mrs. Stephen Greenleaf), 66, 152. 



Greenleaf, Judith (Mrs. Tristram Cof- 
fin, Jr.), widow Henry Somerby and 
dau. Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf, 
28, 228, 235. 

Greenleaf, Judith (Coffin), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Greenleaf), 235. 

Greenleaf, Margaret (Piper), (Mrs. 
Tristram Greenleaf), 235. 

Greenleaf, Nathaniel, son Tristram 
Greenleaf), 235. 

Greenleaf, Samuel, son Stephen Green- 
leaf, 228. 

Greenleaf, Sarah, 28. 

Greenleaf, Sarali (Mrs. Nathaniels 
Clark), 227. 

Greenleaf, Sarah (Dole), (Mrs. Ed- 
mund Greenleaf), 46, 228, 230, 235, 
236. 

Greenleaf, Sarah (Kent), (Mrs. Samuel 
Greenleaf), 228. 

Greenleaf, Sarah, dau. Samuel Green- 
leaf, 228. 

Greenleaf, Stephen, Captain, son Ed- 
mund Greenleaf, 4, 5, 9, 28, 46, 47, 
48, 49, 66, 68, 152, 228, 230, 235, 236. 

Greenleaf, Stephen, Jr., 48. 

Greenleaf, Tristram, son Stephen, 235. 

Greenleaf's Lane, 49. 

Greenly, Elizabeth (Mrs. Sir Isaac 
Coffin), 43. 

Gulf Stream, The, 70. 



Hall, Hannah (Mrs. Joseph Sears), 
230. 

Hallowell, Anna (Davis), (Mrs. Rich- 
ard Price Hallowell), 165. 

Hallowell, Richard Price, 165. 

Ham, John, 21. 

Hamilton, James, Portsmouth, N. H., 
231. 

Hamilton, Phebe (Boughton), (Mrs. 
James Hamilton), 231. 

Harker, Ebenezer, 225. 

Harker, Hepzibah (Mrs. Jonathan Cof- 
fin, Sr)., dau. Ebenezer Harker, 224, 
225. 

Harper, Robert, 77. 

Harvej', Joanna (Mrs. Robert Barn- 
ard), 156, 157, 159, 193, 194, 212, 
214, 219. 

Hathaway connection with Nantucket 
families, 183. 

Hathaway, Hepzibah (Mrs. Samuel 
Wing, Jr.), 184, 186. 

Hathaway, Hepzibah (Starbuek), (Mrs. 
Thomas Hathaway), 184. 

Hathawaj', Hepzibah, dau. Thomas, 
184. 

Hathaway, Thomas, 184. 

Hiward, Elizalteth (Mrs. George Law- 
ton), dau. Thomas Hazard, 142, 146, 
193, 218, 219. 



Hazard Family, 146. 

Hazard, Martha, 219. 

Hazard, Martha (Mrs. Thomas Haz- 
ard), 142, 146, 193, 219. 

Hazard, Martha (Sheriff), (Mrs. 
Thomas Hazard, 2d \vife), 146. 

Hazard, Thomas, 142, 145, 146, 193, 
194, 219. 

Hazard, Tliomas, will of, 140. 

Henderson, Patrick, 131. 

Herioif, an Icelander, 1. 

Hill, James, 47. 

Hinchman, Ann (Mrs. John Thome), 
422. 

Hinchman, John, 242. 

I[inchman, Letitia (Mr.s. Thomas 
Thorne), 241, 242. 

Hobart, Abigail, dau. Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 85. 

Ilobart, Bathsheba, dau. Rev. Peter 
Hobart, 84. 

Hobart, David, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 85. 

Hobart, Edmund, 151, 157. 

Hobart, Edmund, father Rev. Peter 
Hobart, 85. 

Hobart, Edmund, Jr., son Edmund 
Hobart, Sr., S5. 

Hobart, Elizabeth, dau. Rev. Peter 
Hobart, 84. 

Hobart, Gershon, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, S5. 

Hobart, Hannah, dau. Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, died soon, 84. 

Hobart, Hannah (Mrs. John Brown, 
Sr.), dau. Rev. Peter Hobart, 83, 
84, 150, 151, 157. 

Hobart, Ichabod, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 84. 

Hobart, Israel, son Rev. Peter Hobart, 
85. 

Hobart, Jael, dau. Rev. Peter Hobart, 
85. 

Hobart, Japhet, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 85. 

Hobart, Jeremiah, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 84. 

Hobart, Joanna (Quincy), (Mrs. David 
Hobart), 85. 

Hobart, Joshua, son Edmund Hobart, 
85. 

Hobart, Joshua, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 84. 

Hobart, Josiah, son Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 84. 

Hobart, Lydia, dau. Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 85. 

Hobart, Margaret (Dewej'), (Mi-s. Ed- 
mund Hobart), 151, 157. 

Ilobart, Nehcmiah, son Rev. Peter 
Hobart, 85. 

Ilobai-t (or Hubberd), Peter, Rev., son 
Edmund Hobart, S3, 1.51, 1.57. 



Index. 



339 



Hobart, Rebecca, dau. Edmund Ho- 
bart, 85. 

Hobart, Rebecca, dau. Rev. Peter Ho- 
bart, 85. 

Hobart, Sarali, dau. Edmund, 85. 

Hobart, Sarah (Jackson), (Mrs. Ne- 
hemiah Hobart), 85. 

Hobart, Sarah (Joyce), (Mrs. David 
Hobart), So. 

Hobart, Sarah (Wetherall), (Mrs. Is- 
rael Hobart), 85. 

Hobart, Thomas, son Edmund, 85. 

Hodge intermarriage, 69. 

Holder, Christopher, 59, 87, 192, 194, 

Holder, Mary (Scott), (Mrs. Christo- 
pher Holder), 192. 

Holder, Mary (Mrs. Peleg Slocura), 
dau. Christopher Holder, 191, 192. 

Holway, Elizabeth (Mrs. Lindley 
Moore Wing), 186, 187. 

Hopcot, Sarah (Mrs. Thomas Macy, 
Sr.), 143, 144, 145, 149, 151, 153, 
154, 161, 163, 167, 172, 173, 181, 182, 
195, 196, 197, 198, 200, 201, 202, 203, 
206, 209, 211, 214, 221, 222, 223. 

Hopkins, Lydia Matilda (Bicknell), 
(Mrs. Norman Fox Hopkins), 226. 

Hopkins, Norman Fox, 226. 

Hopper, Ann (Mott), (Mrs. Edward 
Hopper), 164. 

Hopper, Edward, 164. 

Hopper, George, son Edward, 165. 

Hopper, Isaac, son Edward, 165. 

Hopper, James, son Edward, 164. 

Hopper, Lucretia, dau. Edward, 164. 

Hopper, Maria, dau. Edward, 165. 

Hosier, Elizabeth (Mitchell), (Mrs. 
Giles Hosier), 216, 220. 

Hosier, Elizabeth (Mrs. Caleb Cog- 
geshall), dau. Giles Hosier, 216, 220. 

Hosier, Giles, 216, 220. 

Howland, Ann (Mrs. Sands Wing), 
186. 

Howland, Arthur, 77. 

Howland, Arthur, brother John How- 
Jand, 77. 

Howland, Arthur, Jr., son Arthur, 78. 

Howland, Desire (Mrs. John Gorham, 
Sr.), 171, 173, 196, 199, 201, 202, 
203, 209, 229. 

Howland, Desire, dau. John Howland, 
172, 198, 200, 205, 230. 

Howland, Elizabeth (Tilley), (Mrs. 
John Howland), 172, 174, 198, 200, 
201, 202, 204, 209, 230, 239, 240. 

Howland, John, 77, 78, 172, 173, 174, 
198, 200, 201, 202, 204, 209, 230, 239, 
241. 

Howland, Henry, 77. 

Hudson, Settling the Cit.r of, 113. 

Humphrey intermarriage, 69. 

Hussey, Abial (Brown), (Mrs. Sylva- 
nus Hussey, Sr.), 150. 



Hussey, Abigail, dau. Stephen Hussey, 
54. 

Hussey, Alice (Gray), (Mrs. Sylvanus 
Hussey, Jr., 1st wife), 183. 

Hussey, Ann (Coffin), (Mrs. Batchel- 
der Hussey), 206. 

Huasey, Batchiller, son Stephen Hus- 
sey, 54. 

Hussey, Batchelder, son Sylvanus 
Hussey, Sr., 166, 206. 

Hussey, Benjamin, 113. 

Hussey, Christopher, son John Hussey, 
4, 5, 9, 50, 52, 53, 60, 61, 145, 
1.50, 151, 153, 154, 166, 167, 171, 173, 
183, 185, 197, 201, 206, 210, 213, 214. 
234, 239, 241. 

Hussey, Daniel, son Stephen Hussey, 
54. 

Hnssey, Deborah (Paddack), (Mrs. 
George Hussey), 166, 170. 

Hussey, Elizabeth (Robinson), (Mrs. 
Joseph Hussey), widow Henry Tib- 
betts, 235. .^^ 

Hussey, George, son Stephen Hussey, 
54. 

Husse}', George, son Sylvanus Hussey, 
Sr., 166, 170. 

Hussey,, Hepzibah (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
Sylvanus Hussey, Sr.), 166, 171, 183, 
206. 

Hussey, Hulda, dau. Christopher Hus- 
sey, 53. 

Hussey, Jane (Mrs. Richard Hussey), 
235. 

Hussey, John, 50, 51. 

Hussey, John, son Christopher Hussey, 
53, 54, 153, 154, 213, 214. 

Hussey, John, son John Hussey, 51. 

Hussey, John, items concerning, 51. 

Husse}', Joseph, son Richard Hussey, 
235. 

Hussej', Lydia (Macy), (Mrs. Josiah 
Hussey), 203, 209, 210. 

Hussey, Lydia (Wing), (Mrs. Sylvanws 
Hussey, Jr., 2d wife), 183, 185. 

Hussey, Lydia (Folger), (Mrs. Zac- 
cheus Hussey), 206. 

Hussey, Lydia, dau. Zaccheus Hussey, 
206. 

Hussey, Martha (Bunker), (Mrs. Ste- 
phen Hussey), 53, 150, 166, 167, 171, 
183, 197, 206, 210, 239, 240. 

Hussey, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Earle), 
167. 



Hussey, Paul, 113. 

Hussey, Phebe (Folger), (Mrs. Uriel 
Hussey), 166, 167. 

Hussey, Puella (Mrs. Shubael Gor- 
ham, Sr.), dau. Stephen Hussey, 54, 
196, 197. 

Hussey, Rachel (Mrs. Barnabas Cole- 
man), dau. Sylvanus Hussey, 62, 150. 

Hussey, Rebecca (Perkins), (Mrs. John 
Hussey), 53, 153, 154, 213, 214. 

Hussey, Richard, progenitor of Whit- 
tier Family, 234, 235, 236. 

Hussey, Samuel, son Joseph Hussey, 
235. 

Hussey, Sarah (Mrs. John Milton 
Earle), 167. 

Hussey, Sarah (Folger), (Mrs. Tris- 
tram Hussey), 166. 

Hussey, Stephen, 117, 122, 129, 132. 

Hussej', Stephen, son Christopher 
Hussey, 52, 53, 62, 150, 166, 167, 171, 
183, 197, 206,- 210, 239, 241. 

Hussey, Susanna (Mrs. Zenas Gard- 
ner), dau. George Hussey, 169, 170. 
-Lifussey, Sylvanus, Sr., son Stephen 
Hussey, 54, 62, 150, 166, 171, 183, 
206. 

Hussey, Sylvanus, Jr., 183, 185. 

Hussey, Theodate (Bachelor), (Mrs. 
Christopher Hiwsey), 52, 56, 150, 
151, 153, 154, 166, 167, 171, 173, 183, 
185, 197, 201, 206, 210, 213, 214, 239. 

Hussey, Theodata, dau. Stephen Hus- 
sey, 54. 

Hussey, Theodata, dau. Christopher 
Husse.v, 53. 

Hussey, Tristram, 166. 

Hussey, Tristram, son Batchelder 
Hussey, 166. 

Hussey, Uriel, son George Hussey, 
106, 167. 

Hussey, Zaccheus, 206. 

Hutchins, Frances (Mrs. John Hutch- 
ins), 233. 

Hutchins, John, 233. 

Irwin intermarriage, 60. 



Jackson, Sarah (Mrs. Nehemiah Ho- 
bart), 85. 

Jacob, Mary (Mrs. John Otis), 172, 
200, 202, 204, 209. 

Janney, Mary (Mrs. Joseph Drinker), 
164. 

Jenkins, Charles, 113. 
Hussey, Mary (Wood), (Mrs. John j jg^^^jj^g jo,,^_ j^^ ^-. 

Hussey), 50, 51. | jgnkins, Thomas. 113. 

Hussey, Mary (Mrs. Moses Swett), dau. Johnson, Hannah (Mrs. Paul Wing 



John Hussey, 152, 153, 213, 214. 

Hussey, Mary, dau. Christopher Hus- 
sey, 53. 

Hussey, Mercy (Evans), (Mrs. Samuel 
Hussey), 235. 



Newhall), 189, 190. 

Johnson, Jane (Mrs. Barney Gorham), 
229. 

Johnson, Mary, widow Edward John- 
son, 61. 



340 



Early Settlers of Nantucli-et. 



Johnson, ^Samuel, 190. 
Johnson, Sarah (Challis), 
Samuel Johnson), 190. 



(Mrs. 



Keen, Abigail (Mrs. Prince Barker), 
dau. Benjamin Keen, 190, 191. 

Keen, Benjamin, 191, 194. 

Keen, Deborah (Barker), Mrs. Benja- 
min Keen), 191. 

Kent, Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Greenleaf). 
228. 

Kimball, Abigail (Mrs. John Sever- 
ance), dau. Richard Kimball, 184. 

Kimball, Richard, 184. 

Kimball, Ursula (Scott), (Mrs. Richard 
Kimball), 184. 

Kirby, Richard, Jr., 77. 

Knapp, Ann (Mrs. Thomas Philbrick, 
Jr.), dau. William Knapp, 157, 193. 

Knapp, William, 157. 

Knight, George, Sir, 5. 

Lamson, Edwin, 174. 

Lamson, Mary (Swift), (Mrs. Edwin 

Lamson), 174. 
Lawrence, • (Bunker), (Mrs. Hon. 

S. Abbott Lawrence), 237. 
Lawton, Elizabeth (Hazzard), (Mrs. 

George Lawton), 142, 146, 193, 218. 
Lawton, George, 142, 145, 146, 193, 

194, 218, 219. 
Lawton, Mercy (Mrs. James Tripp), 

dau. George Lawton, 142, 146, 192, 

193, 194, 217, 218, 219. 
Lawton, Naomi (Mrs. Henry Corbit 

Davis), 165. 
Lea & Bunker, 237. 
Le Clerc, as connected with the Cof- 
fins, 25. 
Leddra, William, 91, 94. 
Letter to the Magistrates of Salem 

(1658), 87. 
Lincoln, Lydia (Hobart), (Mrs. 

Thomas Lincoln), 85. 
Lincoln, Thomas, Captain, 85. 
Linkham, Julian Rumsey, 165. 
LJnkham, Marj' Mott (Lord), (Mru. 

Julian Rumsey Linkham), 165. 
Little, Eleanor (Bai-nard), (Mrs. 

Thomas Little), 64. 
Little, George, 64. 
Lloyd, Anna (Lord), (Mrs. Herbert 

M. Lloyd), 165. 
Lloyd, Herbert M., 165. 
Long, Robert, 48. 
^/ Look, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas Look), 

158. 
Look, Experience (Mrs. Stephen Cof- 
fin, Jr.), daxi. Thomas Look, 158. 
Ijook, Thomas, 11, 158, 159. 
Lord, Anna, dau. George W. Lord, 

165. 



Lord, Bessie, dau. George W. Lord, 

165. 
Lord, Ellen, dau. George W. Lord, 

165. 
Lord, George W., 164, 165. 
Lord, Lucretia, dau. George W. Lord, 

165. 
Lord, Martha (Mott), (Mrs. George 

W. Lord), 164, 165. 
Lord, Mary Mott, dau. George W. 

Lord, 165. 
Lovelace, Francis, Esq., 26. 
Lovelace, Governor, 12, 81. 



/^ '^lacyf jDsiah, ; 



McKenzie, Alexander, 224. 

McKenzie, Hepzibeth, (Mrs. Martin 

McKenzie), 224. 
McKenzie, Martin, 224. 
M»cy, Abigail (Mrs. Benjamin Stan- j 

ton), dau. David Macy, 221, 223. 
Macy, Abrahami, son Richard Macy, 

195, 201. 
Macy, Abraham 2, son Abrahami, 195. 
Mac}', Abrahams, son Abraham Macy2, 

195, 198. 
Macy, Abraham, Descendants, 201. 
Macy, Abraham, Family of, 195. 
Macy, Ann Eliza (Macy), (Mrs. Isaac 

Macy), 210. 
Macy, Anna (Worth), (Mrs. Abraham 

Macyi), 195. 
Macy, Catharine C. (Mrs. Townsend 

Powell), 195, 202. 
Macy, David, son John Macy, Jr., 221. 
Macy, Deborah (Mrs. Benjamin Cof- 
fin), dau. Thomas Macy, Jr., 160, 

161. 
Macy, Deborah (Coffin), (Mrs. ThomasS 

Macy), 143, 161, 181, 211. 
Macy, Deborah (Gardner), (Mrs. John 

Mac.y, Sr.), 143, 149, 181, 195, 198, 

203, 211, 221. 
Macy, Deborah (Coggeshall), (Mrs. 

Paul Macy), 216. 
Macy, Deborah (Pinkham), (Mrs. 

Richard Macy), 195. 
Macy, Deborali (Mrs. Daniel Russell), 

dau. John Macy, 149. 
Macy, Deborah, dau. Francis Macy, 

102. 
Macy, Dinah (Gardner), (Mrs. David 

Macy), 221. 
Macy, Elizabeth (Coleman), (Mrs. 

Abraham Macy), 195, 198, 201. 
Macy, Elizabeth (Mrs. Francis Bar 

nard), dau. ThomasS Macy, 211. 
Macy, Elizabeth (Mrs. Elihu Cole- 
man), dau. Jonathan Macy, 198. 
Macy, Francis, son Tliomas Macy, 143. 
Macy, Francis, extract of will of, 102. 
Macy, Francis, Jr., son Francis Macy, 
102. 



Macy, George, 18. 

Macy, Isaac, son Thomas Macy, 2in. 

Macy, John, 18. 

Macy, John, Sr., son Thomas Macy, 

143, 149, 161, 181, 195, 198, 203, 

211, 221. 

Macy, John, Jr., son John Macy, Sr., 

198, 203, 221. 

Macy, Jonathan, Jr., son Jonathan 

Macy, Sr., 203. 

Slacy, Jonathan, Sr., son John Mac.v, 

son Jonathan Macy, 203, 

209, 210. 
Macy, Josiah, Family of, 203. 
Macy, Josiah H., 210. 
Macj', Lois (Gorham), (Mrs. Jonathan 

Macy, Sr.), 198, 203. 
Macy, Love (Mrs. James Cartwright), 

dau. Francis Macy, 142, 143. 
Macy, Love, dau. ThomasS Macy, 181. 
Macy, Judith (Coffin), (Mrs. Francis 

Macy), 143. 
Macy, Judith (Worth), (Mrs. John 

Macy, Jr.), 198, 203, 221. 
Macy, Lydia Hussey (Mrs. William R. 

Austin), widow Jonathan Hasbrouck 

Stanton, Esq., 210. 
Macj', Lydia (Mrs. Josiah Hussej'); 

203, 209, 210. 
Macy, Mary (Mi-s. William Bunker), 

dau. Thomas Macy, 144, 153, 162, 

163, 172, 195, 196, 199, 201, 205, 208, 

209, 238, 239, 240. 
-Macy, name signifies, 18. 
Macy, Paul, 216. 
Macy, Priscilla (Bunker), (Mrs. Abra- 

ham2 Macy), 195. 
Macy, Richard, son John :Macy, 195. 
Macy, Rose (Pinkham), (Mrs. Jona- 
than Macy, Jr.), 203. 
Macy, Samuel, 18. 
Macy, Sarali (Hopcot), (ilrs. Thomas 

Macy, Sr.), 18, 143, 144, 145, 149, 

151, 153, 154, 161, 163, 167, 172, 173, 

181, 182, 195, 196, 197, 198, 200, 201, 

202, 203, 206, 209, 211, 214, 221, 222, 

223, 239. 
Macy, Sarah (Mrs. William Worth), 

dau. Thomas Macy, 196, 197, 199, 

200, 222. 
Macy, Thomas, Sr., 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 

15, 20, 26, 60, 63, 68, 143, 144, 145, 

149, 151, 153, 154, 161, 163, 167, 172, 

173, 181, 182, 190, 195, 196, 197, 198, 

200, 201, 202, 203, 206, 209, 211, 214, 

221, 222, 223, 240, 241. 
Mac}', Thomas3, son John Macy, 143, 

161, 181, 211. 
Macy, Thomas, removes to Nantucket, 

17. 
Mandamus to the Governors in New 

England, 90. 



Index. 



341 



Marston, Prudence (Mrs. Williaml 
Swain), 65, 228. 

Mason, Daniel, 85. 

Mason, Rebecca (Hobart), (Mrs. Dan- 
iel Mason), 85. 

Maxfield, Daniel 0., 187. 

Maxfield, Alice (Rogers, Wing), (Mrs. 
Daniel C. Maxfield), 187. 

Mayhew, Experience, son John May- 
hew, 99. 

Mayhew, the first known in England, 
96. 

Mayhew, Jane (Paine), (Mrs. Thomas 
Mayhew, Jr.), 162, 163, 167, 208, 210. 

Mayhew, John, son Tliomas Mayhew, 
Jr., 99. 

Mayhew, Jonathan, son Experience 
Mayhew, 99. 

Mayhew, Mary (Rankin), (Mrs. Paine 
Mayhew), 162, 208. 

Mayhew, Mary (Skiffe), (Mrs. Matthew 
Mayhew), 162, 208. 

Mayhew, Matthew, son Th'^mas May- 
hew, Jr., 99, 162, 208. 

Mayhew, Paine, son Matthew May- 
hew, 162, 208. 

Mayhew, Sarah (Mrs. Abishai Folger), 
dau. Paine Mayhew, 161, 162, 206, 
208. 

Mayhew, Thomas, Jr., son Tliomas 
Mayhew, Sr., 11, 67, 96, 99, 162, 163, 
167, 208, 210. 

Mayhew, Thomas, Sr., 3, 5, 6, 9, 68, 
96, 97, 162, 163, 167, 208, 210. 

Mayhew, Tliomas, deed by, 4. 

Maj-hew, Thomas, son of Thomas, Jr., 
99. 

Meader, Ann, dau. Eliner Meader, 34. 

Meader, Eliner, 34. 

Meader, Nicolas, 37. 

Mellor, Martha (Mrs. Henry Corbit 
Davis), 165. 

Merrick, Sarah (Mrs. John2 Freeman), 
229. 

Mitchell, Ann (Folger), (Mrs. James 
Mitchell), 192, 217. 

Mitchell, Elizabeth (Mrs. Giles Ho- 
sier), dau. James Mitchell, 216, 217. 

Mitchell, Elizabeth (Tripp), (Mrs. 
Richard2 Mitchell), 141, 192, 217, 
219. 

Mitchell Family, 141. 

Mitchell, Henry, Prof., 73. 

Mitchell, Hepzibah, dau. James Mitch- 
ell, 192. 

Mitchell, .James, son Richard Mitchell, 
Jr., 192, 217. 

Mitchell, Love (Mrs. Judge Brayton), 
145. 

Mitchell, Lydia (Cartwright), (Mrs. 
Peleg Mitchell, Sr.), 141, 145, 146. 

Mitchell, Lydia (Coleman), (Mrs. 
William Mitchell), 73. 



Mitchell, Maria, dau. William Mitch- 
ell, 12, 73, 146. 

Mitchell, Mary (Starbuck), (Mrs. 
Richards Mitchell), 141. 

Mitchell, Mary (Wood), (Mrs. Rich- 
ardl Mitchell), 141, 142, 192, 194, 
217, 219. 

Mitchell, Mercy (Mrs. Caleb Cog- 
geshall), 216. 

Mitchell, Peleg, Sr., son Richard:; 
Mitchell, 141, 145, 146. 

Mitchell, Peleg, Sr., descendants of, 
145. 

Mitchell, Richardi, 141, 145, 192, 194, 
217, 219. 

Mitchell, Richards, son Richardi 
Mitchell, 141, 192, 217, 219. 

Mitchell, Richards, son Richards 
Mitchell, 141. 

Mitchell, William, 73. j 

Mooer, Edward , 213. ^^^^^^ 

Mooer, Jonathan, 213. 

Mooers, Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Cole- 
man), dau. Jonathan Mooers, 213. 

Mooers, Jonathan, 213. 

Moore, Katharine (Swift), (Mrs. Mar- 
cus A. Moore), 174. 

Moore, Marcus A., 174. 

Morrill, Abraham, 228. 

Morrill, Eleanor (True), (Mrs. Abra- 
ham Morrill), 228. 

Morrill, Lydia (Trask), (Mrs. William 
Morrill), 228. 

Morrill, Lydia (Mrs. John Colcord), 
dau. William Morrill, 227. 

Morrill, Mary (Mrs. Peter Folger), 
144, 150, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 
162, 163, 167, 192, 194, 197, 199, 201, 
202, 207, 210, 213, 214, 217, 219, 
225, 226. 

Morrill, William, son Abraham, 228. 

Morse, Benjamin, 33. 

Morse, Margaret, dau. Benjamin 
Morse, 33. 

Mott, Ann (Mrs. Edward Hopper), 
dau. James Mott, 164. 

Mott, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas S. Cav- 
ender), 164, 165. 

Mott, Emily (Mrs. George R. Shaw), 
165. 

Mott, Hannah (Mrs. Abraham Tucker), 
dau. Jacob Mott, 191, 192. 

Mott, Isabel (Mrs. Joseph Parish), 165. 

Mott, Jacob, 192, 194. 

Mott, James, 163, 164. 

Mott, Joanna (Slocum), (Mrs. Jacob 
Mott), 192, 194. 

Mott, Lucretia (Coffin), (Mrs. James 
Mott), 160, 163, 164. 

Mott, Lucretia, Family of, 160, 167. 

Mott, Lucretia, Letters of, 160. 

Mott, Maria (Mrs. Edward Morris 
Davis), dau. James Mott, 164, 165. 



Mott, Maria, dau. Thomas Mott, 165. 
Mott, Marianna (Pelham), (Mrs. 

Thomas Mott), 164, 165. 
Mott, Martha (Mrs. George W. Lord), 

164, 165. 
Mott, Thomas, 164, 165. 
Mott, Thomas, son James Mott, 164. 
Moulton, " Willm.", 35. 
" Mourts Relation," 174. 



Nanahumo of Nantucket, 7. 

Nantucket, An Impartial Judgment, 
133. 

Nantucket, Customs, Documents and 
Incidents of, 100. 

Nantucket, Friends' meetings first 
held, 129. 

Nantucket, J. Richardson's meeting 
at Mary Starbiick's was convened, 
124. 

Nantucket, losses in Revolutionary 
War, 118. 

Nantucket, ministers visiting the isl- 
and, 126. 

Nantucket, Mr. Arthur Ketchum'a 
sonnet respecting, 118. 

Nantucket Monthly Meeting estab- 
lished, 131. 

Nantucket, the neutral position of 
during the Revolutionary War, 
111, 114. 

Nantucket, oldest house on, C6. 

Nantucket, removals from, 113. 

Nantucket, rise of the Friends' So- 
ciety, 120. 

Nantucket (Sherburne), 79. 

Nantucket, Town Meeting incident, 
108. 

Nantucket, visit of John Kinsey, 127. 

Nantucket, the whale fishery of, 
111, 115. 

Naumkeag, now Salem, 80. 

Newbury, early settlers, 46, 52. 

Newhall, Abby, dau. Paul Wing New- 
hall, 189. 

Newhall, Abby W. (Mrs. Micajah 
Pratt), 189. 

Newhall, Barker, son Joseph Phil- 
brick Newhall, 190. 

Newhall, Catharine Johnson, dau. 
Paul Wing Newhall, 189. 

Newhall connection with Nantucket 
families, 189. 

Newhall, Daniels, 189. 

Newhall, Elizabeth (" Huntington " 
Barker), (Mrs. Joseph Philbrick 
Newhall), 189, 190, 193. 

Newhall, Elizabeth (Potter), (Mrs. 
Thomas2 Newhall), 189. 

Newhall, Elizabeth, dau. Paul Wing 
Newhall, 190. 

Newhall, EstesG, 189. 



342 

• .^.. .' *.«.><'JA>.;-<Hi,..>»AWt.! "'-w!^ ''■\ ■' :• ■ 

Newhall, George, son Paul Wing New- 
hall, 189. 

Newhall, Hannah (Estes), (Mrs. 
Daniels Newhall), 189. 

Newhall, Hannah (Johnson), (Mrs. 
Paul Wing Newhall), 189, 190. 

Newhall, Hepzibah (Wing), (Mrs. 
Estes6 Newhall, 1st wife), 189. 

Newhall, Josephs, 189. 

Newhall, Joseph Philbrick, son Estes 
Newhall, 189, 190, 193. 

Newhall, Keziah (Breed), (Mrs. Sam- 
iieH Newhall), 189. 

Newhall, Maria, dau. Paul Wing New- 
hall, 190. 

Newhall, Mary, dau. Paul Wing New- 
hall, 190. 

Newhall, Miriam (Philbrick), (Mrs. 
EstesS Newhall, 2d wife), 189. 

Newhall, Paul Wing, son Estes New- 
hall, 189, 190. 

Newhall, Philena (Marshall, Peter- 
son), (Mrs. William Estes Newhall), 
189. 

Newhall, SamueU, 189. 

Newhall, Sarah Johnson, dau. Paul 
Wing Newhall, 189. 

Ntwhall, Susanna (Farrar), (Mrs. Jo- 
sepli3 Newhall), 189. 

Newhall, Thomasl, 189. 

Newhall, Thomas2, 189. 

Newhall, William Estes, son Paul 
Wing Newhall, 189. 

Newland, William, 77. 

Newport, settlement of, 146. 

Nickanoose, of Nantucket, 7. 

Nine Partners, deed to, 5. 

Norman, Lucy Lathana (Mrs. David 
Stanton), 221. 

Noyes, Nicholas, 48. 

Noyes, Thomas, Captain, 48. 



Odar, Anthony, 213, 214. 

Odar, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jonathan 

Mooers), dau. Anthony Odar, 213. 
Odar, Sarah Folgcr (Mrs. Anthony 

Odar), 213, 214. 
Otis, John, 172, 173, 200, 202, 204, 

209, 239, 241. 
Otis, Mary (Jacob), (Mrs. John Otis), 

172, 20O, 202, 204, 209, 239. 
Otis, Marj' (Mi-s. John Gorham, Jr.), 

dau. John Otis, 171, 172, 199, 200, 

203, 230. 



Pyddaek, Ann (Bunker), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Paddack), 152, 171, 199, 204, 
238. 

Paddack, Daniel, son Nathaniel, 
171, 238. 



Early SeUhrs of Nantucket. 

Paddack, Deborah (Sears), (Mrs. Zech- 

ariah Paddack), 152, 153, 166, 171, 

173, 199, 202, 204, 209, 238. 
Paddack, Deborah (Mrs. George Hus- 

sey), dau. Daniel Paddack, 166, 170. 
Paddack, Lydia (Mi-s. Jetliro Cole- 
man), dau. Nathaniel Paddack, 198, 

199, 204. 
Paddack, Mary (Mrs. Robert Pad- 
dack), 152, 171, 199, 204. 
Paddack, Mary (Mrs. Francis Swain, 

Sr.), dau. Nathaniel Paddack, 152. 
Paddack, Nathaniel, son Zeehariah 

Paddack, 152, 171, 199, 204, 238. 
Paddack, Robert, 152, 171, 173, 199, 

204, 238, 240. 
Paddack, Stephen, 113. 
Paddack, Susanna (Gorham), (Mrs. 

Daniel Paddack), 171, 238. 
Paddaciv, " Zeehariah," son Robert 

Paddack, 152, 153, 171, 173, 199, 

202, 204, 209, 238, 241. 
Paige, Anna (Wing), (Mrs. Elwood 

Paige), 187. 
Faige, Elwood, 187. 
Paine, Anthony, 142. 
Paine, Jane (Mrs. Thomas Mayhew, 

Jr.), 162, 163, 167, 208, 210. 
Paine, Mary (Mrs. Jolin Tripp), 192, 

194, 219. 
Paine, Mary, dau. Anthonj' Paine, 142. 
Paine, Susanna (Mrs. Anthony Paine), 

142. 
Parish, Fanny (Cavender), (Mrs. 

Thomas Parish), 165. 
Parish, Isabel Mott (Jlrs. Joseph 

Parish), 165. 
Parish, Joseph, 165. 
Parish, Thomas, 165. 
Paul, Hannah C. (Bunker), (Mrs. 

James W. Paul), 237. 
Peaslee, Jost^ph, 236. 
Peaslee, Ruth (Barnaid), (Mrs. Joseph 

Peaslee), 236. 
Pelham, Marianna (Mrs. Thomas 

Mott), 164, 165. 
Pelham, Martha (CofBn), (Mrs. Peter 

Pelham), 163. 
Pelham, Peter, 163. 
Pepper intermaiTiage, 69. 
Perry, Edward, 77. 
Perry, Elizabetli (Wing), (Mrs. .John 

S. Perry), 187. 
Perry intermarriage, 69. 
Perry, John S., 187. 
Perry, Mary (Mrs. John Wing), 188. 
Perkins, Isaac, 214. 
Perkins, Rebecca (Mrs. John Hussey), 

dau. Isaac Perkins, 53, 153, 154, 

213, 214. 
Perkins, Susanna (Mrs. Isaac Perkins), 

214. 



Peterson, Philena (Marshall), (Mrs. 
William Estes Newhall), 189. 

Phelps, Nichols, banished from Eng- 
land, 89. 

Philbrick, Ann (Knapp), (Mrs. 
Tliomas Philbrick, Jr.), 157, 193. 

Philbrick, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas 
Philbrick, Sr.), 193. 

Philbrick, Elizabeth (Mrs. Tliomas 
Chase), dau. Tliomas Philbrick, 1.56, 
157, 193. 

Philbrick, Miriam (Mrs. Estes6 New- 
hall), 189. 

Philbrick, Samuel, son Thomas, Jr., 
193. 

Philbrick, Thomas, 1.57. 

Philbrick, Tliomas, .Jr., son Thomas 
Philbrick, Sr., 19". 

Philbrick, Tliomas, Sr., from Eng- 
land, 193. 

Phillips, Elizabeth (Swift), (Mrs. 
.John E. Phillips), 174. 

Phillips, John E., 174. 

Pickett, Joanna (Mrs. JoIm4 Free- 
man), 229. 

Pierce, Daniel, 48. 

Pierce, David, 48. 

Pierce, Elbridge Gerry, 229. 

Pierce, Elizabeth Carrol (Mrs. Dole 
Wadley), dan. Elbridge Gerry 
Pierce, 227, 229. 

Pierce, Elizabeth Carrol, descendants, 
230. 

Pierce, Sarah Jane (Gorham), (Mrs. 
Elbridge Gerry Pierce), 229. 

ifike Family, 60. 

Pike, Robert, 9, 11, 14, 17, 60. 

Pike, AVilliam, 4, 5. 

Pile, William, 68. 

Pinkham, Ann (Starbuck), (Mrs. Reu- 
ben Pinkham), 203. 

Pinkham, Deborah (Mrs. Richard 
Macy), dau. Richsird Pinkham, 
195, 196. 

Pinkham, Deborah (Paddack), (Mrs. 
Theophilus Pinkham), 203. 

Pinkham, Mary (Coffin), (Mrs. Rich- 
ard Pinkham), 196, 203, 209. 

Pinkham, Reuben, son Theophilus 
Pinkham, 203. 

Pinkham, Richard, 196, 201, 203, 209. 

Pinkham, Rose (Mrs. Jonathan Macy, 
Jr.), dau. Reuben Pinkham, 203. 

Pinkham, Theophilus, son Richard, 
203. 

Plymouth Colony and the Quakers, 77. 

Pond, Elizabeth (Wing), (Mrs. Fred 
Pond), 187. 

Potter, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thonias2 New- 
hall), 189. 

Powell, Aaron Macy, son Townsend 
Powell, 202. 



Index. 



343 



Powell, Catharine C. (Macy), (Mrs. 

Townsend Powell), 195, 202. 
Powell, Elizabeth (Mrs. Herrick 

Bond), 202. 
Powell, George T., son Townsend 

Powell, 202. 
Powell, James, 195. 
Powell, Judith Anna (Rice), (Mrs. 

Aaron Powell), 202. 
Powell, Marcia (Chace), (Mrs. George 

T. Powell), 202. 
Powell, Martha (ToNvnsend), (Mrs. 

James Powell), 195. 
Powell, Townsend, son James Powell, 

195, 202. 
Pratt, Abby W. (Newhall), (Mrs. Mi- 

cajah Pratt), 189. 
Pratt, Bethiah (Mrs. Sampson Cart- 
wright), dau. Joseph Pratt, 143. 
Pratt, Dorcas (Polger), (Mrs. Joseph 

Pratt), 143. 
Pratt, Joseph, son Phineas Pratt, 143. 
Pratt, Mary (Priest), (Mrs. Phineas 

Pratt), 143. 
Pratt, Micajah, 189. 
Pratt, Phineas, 143. 
Prence, Elizabeth (Mrs. Arthur How- 
land), 78. 
Prence, Judith (Mrs. Isaac Barker) 

dau. Governor Thomas Prence, 74 

75, 155, 156, 190. 
Prence, Mary (Brewster), (Mrs. Gov 

ernor Thomas Prence), 230. 
Prence, Mary (Collier), (Mrs. Gov 

ernor Thomas Prence), 75, 156, 157 

1.59, 191, 194, 230. 
Prence, Mercy (Mrs. Johni Freeman) 

dau. Governor Thomas Prence, 229, 

230. 
Prence, Thomas, Governor, 75, 77, 156 

157, 159, 191, 194, 230. 
Priest, Degory, 144, 145, 148. 
Priest, Mary (Mrs. Phineas Pratt) 

dau. Degory Priest, 143, 144. 
Priest, Sarah (Allerton, Vincent) 

(Mrs. Degory Priest), 144, 148. 
Providence Friends' School, estab 

lished, 180. 



Quakers released by order of court, 93. 
^uincy, Edmund, 85. 
^uincy, Joanna, dau. Edmund Quincy, 
85. 



Rankin, Mary (Mrs. Paine Mayhew), 

162, 208. 
Reynear, Rachel (Mrs. John Drinker), 

164. 



Reynolds, Katharine (Mrs. Edward 
Starbuck), 145, 149, 150, 151, 161, 
163, 167, 169, 170, 171, 173, 181, 182, 
183, 185, 190, 193, 194, 197, 199, 201, 
202, 204, 206, 207, 209. 212, 213, 214, 
216, 218, 219, 222, 223, 2'25, 226, 232. 

Rhodes, Samuel, 187. 

Rhodes, Sophia (Mrs. Asa Shore 
Wing), 187. 

Rice, Judith. Anna (Mrs. Aaron Pow- 
ell), 202. 

Richardson, John, his visit to Nan- 
tucket, 122. 

Ripley, Elizabeth (Hobart), (Mrs. 
John Ripley), 84. 

Robinson, William, 15, 94. 

Rocomb, Ebenezer, 131. 

Rogers, Anna (Mrs. Samuel Wing), 
186. 

Rogers, Beulah R. (Wing), (Mrs. 
Moses Folger Rogers), 186, 187. 

Rogers, Moses Folger, 186, 187. 

Rolfe, Henry, brother John, 234. 

Rolfe, John, 68, 234. 

Rotch, Elizabeth Barney (Mrs. Wil- 
liam Rotch, Jr.), 180, 182. 

Rotch, Elizabeth, dau. Joseph Rotch, 
177. 

Rotch, Francis, son Joseph Rotch, 
177, 180. 

Rotch, Hannah (Mrs. William Rotch), 
180. 

Rotch, Joseph, son AVilliam Rotch, 
176, 180. 

Rotch, Love (Macy), (Mrs. Joseph 
Rotch), 180. 

Rotch, Mary, 176. 

Rotch, William, father Joseph Rotch, 
180. 

Rotch, William, son Joseph Rotch, 
114, 117, 176, 177, 179, 180, 182. 

Russell, Deborah (Macy), (Mrs. Dan- 
iel Russell), 149. 

Russell, Daniel, 149. 

Russell Family, 149. 

Russell, Hepzibah (Coleman), (Mrs. 
John Russell, Jr.), 149, 151. 

Russell, John, 151. 

Russell, John, Sr., son Daniel Rus- 
sell, 149. 

Russell, John, Jr., son John Russell, 
Sr., 149. 

Russell, Mary (Mrs. John Cornell), 
215. 

Russell, Ruth (Starbuck), (Mrs. John 
Russell, Sr.), 149. 

Salisbury and Amesbury, " Old Fam- 
ilies," 63. 
Salisbury, name changed, 63. 
Sandwich Meeting of Friends, 59. 
Sandwich, settlement of, 58. 



Scott, Martha (Mrs. Henry Scott), 184. 

Scott, Mary (Mrs. Christopher 
Holder), 192. 

Scott, Ursula (Mrs. Richard Kimball), 
184. 

Sears, Anna (Bursell), (Mrs. Silas 
Sears), 230. 

Sears, Rev. Barnes, 154. 

Sears, Deborah (Mrs. Zechariah Pad- 
dack), dau. Richard Sears, 152, 153, 
166, 171, 172, 173, 199, 200, 202, 204, 
205, 209. 

Sears, Dorothy (Thatcher), (Mrs. 
David Sears), 153. 

Sears, Dorothy (Thatcher), (Mrs. 
Richard Sears), 154, 172, 173, 200, 
202, 205, 209, 230, 239. 

Sears, Hannah (Hall), (Mrs. Joseph 
Sears), 230. 

Sears, Joseph, 230. 

Sears, Priscilla (Mrs. Josiah Gorham), 
dau. Joseph Sears, 229, 230. 

Sears, Richard, 153, 154, 166, 172, 173, 
200, 202, 205, 209, 2.30, 239, 241. 

Sears, Richard, extract from will of 
200. 

Sears, Silas, 230. 

Sears, Thatcher, 200, 230. 

Settlement of the island, 1. 

Severance, Abigail, 28. 

Severance, Abigail (Kimball), (Mrs. 
John Severance), 184. 

Severance, John, 28, 63, 184, 190. 

Severance, Mary (Mrs. James CoflBn), 
dau. John Severance, 28, 143, 149, 
151, 160, 162, 163, 167, 172, 173, 184, 
193, 194, 197, 201, 204, 205, 208, 209, 
210, 214, 217, 218, 219, 224, 225, 226. 

Shattuck, Damaris (Mrs. Thomas 
Gardiner), 81, 86, 240. 

Shattuck, Hannah (Gardner), (Mrs. 
George Gardner), 87. 

Shattuck, Samuel, 86, 87, 89, 91, 92, 
93, 94. 

Shattuck, Sarah (Mrs. Richardl Gard- 
ner), dau. Damaris Sliattuck, 81, 86, 
143, 144, 149, 150, 151, 158, 159, 161, 
162", 163, 167, 169, 172, 173, 181, 182, 
196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 
208, 209, 211, 212, 214, 218, 219, 221, 
222, 223. 

Shaw, Emily (Mott), (Mrs. George R. 
Shaw), 165. 

Shaw, George R., 165. 

Sheriflt, Thomas, 146. 

Skiflfe, Mary (Mrs. Matthew Mayhew), 
162, 208. 

Sherburne, original name of Nantuck- 
et, 79. 

Sherman, Avis (Waterman), (Mrs. 
John Sherman, Jr.), 226. 

Sherman, David, 186. 



314 



Early Settlers of Nantucket. 



Sherman, Lydia Spooner, dau. John 
Sherman, Jr., 226. 

Sherman, Mary (Shove), (Mrs. David 
Sherman), 186. 

Shove, Elizabeth (Collins), (Mrs. Ste- 
phen R. Wing), 186, 187. 

Shove, Mary (Mrs. David Sherman), 
186. 

Slociun, Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Barker, 
Jr.), dau. Peleg Slocum, 190, 191. 

Slocum, Giles, 192. 

Slocum, Joan (Mrs. Giles Slocum), 
192. 

Slocum, Mary (Holder), (Mrs. Peleg 
Slocum), 191. 

Slocum, Peleg, 122, 125, 191. 

Slocum, Peleg, son Giles Slocum, 192, 
194. 

Slocum, Joanna (Mrs. Jacob Mott), 
dau. Giles Slocum, 192, 194. 

Smith, Hulda (Hussey), (Mrs. John 
Smith), 53. 

Smith, John, 11. 

Smyth, Edw., 20. 

Smyth, John, 9, 68. 

Somerby, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniell 
Clark), dau. Henry Somerby, 228. 

Somerby, Henry, 28, 228. 

Somerby, Judith (Greenleaf), (Mrs. 
Henry Somerby), 228. 

Southwick, Cassandra, banished from 
England, 89. 

Southwick, Josiah, son Laurence, ban- 
ished from England, 89. 

Southwick, Laurence, banished from 
England, 89. 

Southworth, Elizabeth (Collier), (Mrs. 
Constant Southworth), 75. 

Spooner, Lydia (Sherman), (Mrs. Sim- 
eon Smith Bicknell), 226. 

SpuiTvill, Thomas, 35. 

Standish, Miles, 5S. 

Stanton, Abigail (Macy), (Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Stanton), 221, 223. 

Stanton, Avis (Mrs. Robert Stanton), 
221. 

Stanton, Benjamin, son Henry Stan- 
ton, 221, 223. 

Stanton connection with Nantucket, 
221. 

Stanton, David, son Benjamin Stan- 
ton, 221. 

Stanton, Edwin McMasters, son David 
Stanton, 216, 221. 

Stanton, Henry, son John Stanton, 
221. 

Stanton, John, son Robert Stanton, 
216, 221. 

Stanton, Jonathan Hasbrouck, Esq., 
210. 

Stanton, Lucy Latham (Norman), 
(Mrs. David Stanton), 221. 



Stanton, Lydia (Albertson), (Mrs. 
Henry Stanton), 221. 

Stanton, Lydia Hussey (Macy), (Mrs. 
Jonathan Hasbrouck Stanton), 210. 

Stanton, Maiy (Clarke, Cranston), 
(Mrs. John Stanton), 221. 

Stanton, Mary (Mrs. John Coggeshall), 
dau. John Stanton, 216, 219. 

Stanton, Robert, 216, 221. 

Starbuck, Abigail (Mrs. Peteri Coffin), 
dau. Edward Starbuck, 224, 225, 226. 

Starbuck, Ann (Tibbetts), (Mrs. Paul 
Starbuck), 204. 

Starbuck, Ann (Mi-s. Reuben Pink- 
ham), dau. Paul Starbuck, 203, 204. 

Starbuck, Barnabas, 132. 

Starbuck, Benjamin, 113, 158. 

Starbuck, Deborah (Mrs. Job Cogge- 
shall), dau. Tristram Starbuck, 216. 

Starbuck, Deborah (Coffin), (Mrs. Tris- 
tram Starbuck), 216. 

Starbuck, Dinah (Mrs. Abishai Fol- 
ger), 155, 158. 

Starbuck, Dinah (Coffin), (Mrs. Na- 
tlianiel Starbuck, Jr.), 149, 171, 183, 
193, 204, 207, 216, 218. 

Starbuck, Dinah (Coffin), (Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Starbuck), 158. 

Starbuck, Dorcas, 11, 132. 

Starbuck, Dorcas (Mrs. William 
Gayer), dau. Edward Stai-buck, 21, 
142, 161, 163, 170, 181, 182. 

Starbuck, Dorcas (Gayer, Sr.), (Mrs. 
Jethro Starbuck), 142, 169, 181. 

Starbuck, Dorcas, dau. William 
Gayer, 105, 106, 107. 

Starbuck, Edward, Sr., 3, 9, 11, 17, 
19, 20, 21, 29, 68, 106, 142, 145, 149, 
150, 151, 161, 163, 167, 169, 170, 171, 
173, 181, 182, 183, 185, 190, 193, 194, 
197, 399, 201, 202, 204, 206, 207, 209, 
212, 213, 214, 216, 218, 219, 222, 223, 
225, 226, 232, 240, 241. 

Starbuck, Elizabeth, dau. Thomas 
Starbuck, 71. 

Starbuck, Hepzibah (Mrs. Thomas 
Hathaway), dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr., 184, 185. 

Starbuck, Hepzibah (Mrs. Sylvanus 
Hussey, Sr.), dau. Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Jr., 106, 171, 183, 206, 207. 

Starbuck, Jethro, 21, 30, 132. 
Starbuck, Jetliro, son Nathaniel Star- 
buck, Sr., 142, 169, 181. 
Starbuck, Katharine (Reynolds), (Mrs. 
Edward Starbuck), 19, 20, 29, 142, 
145, 149, 150, 151, 161, 163, 167, 169, 
170, in, 173, 181, 182, 183, 185, 190, 
193, 194, 197, 199, 201, 202, 204, 206, 
207, 209, 212, 213, 214, 216, 218, 219, 
222, 223, 225, 226. 



Starbuck, Lydia (Mrs. Benjamin 
Barney), 181. 

Starbuck, Mary (Mrs. James Gardner), 
dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Sr., 172, 
200, 201, 204, 205. 

Starbuck, Mary (Mrs. Jethro Folger), 
dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., 192, 
193, 217, 218. 

Starbuck, Mary (Coffin), (Mrs. Nathan- 
iel Starbuck, Sr.), 21, 29, 30, 123, 
126, 132, 142, 149, 150, 169, 171, 172, 
181, 183, 185, 193, 197, 199, 201, 204, 
205, 207, 212, 216, 218. 

Starbuck, Mary, dau. Jethro Star- 
buck, 142. 

Starbuck, name signifies, 23. 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, Jr., son Na- 
thaniel Starbuck, Sr., 123, 132, 149, 
171, 183, 193, 204, 207, 216, 218. 

Starbuck, Nathaniel, Sr., son Edward 
and Katharine Stai'buck, 11, 21, 23, 
20, 31, 68, 126, 128, 142, 149, 150, 
169, 171, 172, 181, 183, 185, 193, 197, 
199, 201, 204, 205, 207, 212, 218, 240. 

Starbuck, Paul, 204. 

Starbuck, Priscilla (Mrs. John Cole- 
man, Jr.), dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, 
Sr., 150, 196, 197, 198, 199. 

Starbuck, Rachel (Mrs. Paul Gardner), 
dau. Thomas Starbuck, 169. 

Starbuck, Rachel (Allen), (Mrs. 
Thomas Starbuck), 169. 

Starbuck, Ruth (Mrs. John Russell, 
Sr.), dau. Nathaniel Starbuck, Jr., 
149. 

Starbuck, Samuel, 114, 117. 

Starbuck, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Austin), 
dau. Edward Starbuck, 144, 145, 161, 
169, 170, 173, 181, 206, 210, 212, 213, 
218, 219, 222. 

Starbuck, Thomas, 71. 

Starbuck, Thomas, son Jethro Star- 
buck, 169. 

Starbuck, Tristram, son Nathaniel 
Starbuck, Jr., 216. 

Stephenson, Mamiaduke, 15, 94. 

Sterling, William, Earl of, 4. 

Stevens, Benjamin, 229. 

Stevens, Dionis (Mrs. Tristram Cof- 
fin), 144, 145, 149, 151, 158, 159, 160, 
161, 162, 163, 167, 169, 170, 172, 
173, 181, 184, 185, 190, 193, 194, 197, 
198, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 
208, 209, 212, 214, 217, 218, 219, 222, 
223, 224, 225, 226, 229, 230. 

Stevens, Eleanor (Mrs. William Ti'ue), 
dau. Benjamin Stevens, 229. 

Stevens, Hannah (Barnard), (Mrs. 
Benjamin Stevens), 229. 

Stevens, Patience (Mrs. Ebenezer2 Col- 
cord), 227. 

Stevens, Robert, 24. 



Index. 



345 



Sloakes, Jane, referred to as first 

Friend visiting Nantucket, 130. 
Story, Sarah (Staxbuck), 21. 
Story, Thomas, 126. 
Story, William, 21. 
Stratton, Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Cof- 
fin), 207. 
Strauss, Albert, 165. 
Strauss, Lucretia (Lord), (Mrs. Albert 

Strauss), 165. 
Sturgis, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Gorham), 

229. 
Swain, Caleb, .son William Swain, 228. 
Swain, Dorothy, dau. Richard Swain, 

Sr., 66, 152. 
Swain, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniel 

Weare), dau. Richard Swain, Sr., 

66, 152. 
Swain, Experience (Folger), (Mrs. 

John Swain, Jr.), 152. 
Swain Family, 152. 
Swain, Francis, Jr., son Francis 

Swain, Sr., 152, 153. 
Swain, Francis, Sr., son John SwainS, 

152. 
Swain, Francis, son Richard Swain, 

Sr., 65. 
Swain, Hannah (Mrs. Caleb Swain), 

228. 
Swain, Jane (Godfrey, Bunker), (Mrs. 

Richard Swain, Sr.), 65, 66. 
Swain, John, son Richard Swain, Sr. , 

4, 9, 66, 68, 122, 129, 152. 
Swain, John, Jr., son John Swain, 
152. 

John, 3d, son John Swain, Jr., 
153. 

Lydia (Barker), (Mrs. Francis 
n, Jr.), 152, 153. 
Mary (Paddack), (Mrs. Francis 
a, Sr.), 152. 
Swain, Mary (Sweet), (Mrs. John 

Swain, 3d), 152. 
Swain, Mary (Webster), (Mrs. Wil- 

liam2 Swain), 228. 
Swain, Mary (Wier), (Mre. John 

Swain, Sr.), 152. 
Swain, Prudence (Marston), (Mrs. Wil- 

liaml Swain), 65, 228. 
Swain, Richard, Jr., son Richard 

Swain, 66. 
Swain, Richard, Sr., 4, 65, 66, 68, 152, 

153, 228, 230, 237. 
Swain, Richards, son Richard2, 66. 
Swain, William i, son Richard Swain, 

Sr., 6.5, 228. 
ISwain, William2, son Williaml Swain, 

228. 
Swaine, Anne (Mrs. Josephl Wad- 

leigh), dau. Caleb Swain, 227, 228. 
Swayne, John, 4, 5. 
Swayne, Richard, 5, 9. 



Swett, Benjamin, 47, 66, 152, 153, 154, 
213, 214. 

Swett, Deliverance (Mrs. Solomon 
Coleman), dau. Moses Swett, 213. 

Swett, Esther (Weare), (Mrs. Benja- 
min Swett), 47. 

Swett, Hester (Weare or Wire), (Mrs. 
Benjamin Swett), 66, 152, 153, 
213, 214. 

Swett, Mary (Hussey), (Mrs. Mosei 
Swett), 152, 153, 213, 214. 

Swett, Mary (Mrs. John Swain, 3d), 
dau. Moses Swett, 152. 

Swett, Moses, son Benjamin Swett, 
152, 153, 154, 213, 214. 

Swett, Moses, extract from will, 213. 

Swift, Content (Mrs. Zaccheus Wing, 
Jr.), 184. 

Swift, Dorcas (Gardner), (Mrs. Dr. 
Paul Swft), 169, 173, 174. 

Swift, Elizabeth (Mrs. John E. Phil- 
lips), 174. 

Swift, Hannah (Mrs. Daniel Wing, 
Sr.), 184. 

Swift, Katharine (Mrs. Robert Whar- 
ton), widow Dr. Marcus A. Moore, 
174. 

Swift, Mary (Mrs. Edwin Lamson), 
174. 

Swift, Dr. Paul, 169, 173, 174. 

Swift, Susan (Mrs. Albert H. Francis- 
cus), 174. 

Taylor, (Bunker), (Mrs. Amos 

Taylor), 237. 

Tea thrown into Boston harbor, 180. 

Temple, Mary (Coffin), (Mrs. Solomon 
Temple), 163. 

Temple, Solomon, 163. 

Thatcher, Dorothy (Mrs. Richard 
Sears), 154, 172, 173, 200, 202, 205, 
209, 230, 239. 

Thome, Elizabeth (Cheeseman), (Mrs. 
Captain Joseph Thorne), 241. 

Thorne Family, 215, 242. 

Thorne, Hannah (Mrs. Richard Cor- 
nell), 215. 

Thorne, John, son Joseph, 242. 

Thorne, Joseph, 242. 

Thorne, Joseph, Captain, son Thomas, 
241. 

Thome, Sarah (Mrs. Joshua Cornell), 
215. 

Thome, Thomas, son Joseph, 241, 242. 

Tibbetts, Ann (Mrs. Paul Starbuck), 
dau. Ephraim Tibbetts, 204, 205. 

Tibbetts, Ephraim, 205. 

Tibbetts, Rose (Austin), (Mrs. Eph- 
raim Tibbetts), 205. 

Tilley, Edward, 174. 

Tilley, Elizabeth (Mrs. John How- 
land), dau. John Tilley, 172, 173, 
198, 200, 201, 202, 204, 209, 230. 



Tilley, John, 80. 

Tilley, John, 173, 174, 198, 201, 202, 
206, 209, 230, 240, 241. 

Tilly, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob Clem- 
ent), 241. 

Til ton, Mary (Mrs. Isaac Chase), 156. 

Toppan, Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathaniels 
Clark), 228. 

Townsend, Martha (Mrs. James Pow- 
ell), 195. 

Trask, Lydia (Mrs. William Morrill), 
228. 

Tripp, Elizabeth, dau. James Tripp, 
142, 192, 217. 

Tripp, Elizabeth (Mrs. Richard^ 
Mitchell), 141, 192, 217, 219. 

Tripp, Mary (Paine), (Mrs. John 
Tripp), 142, 192, 194, 219. 

Tripp, James, 145. 

Tripp, James, son John Tripp, 142, 
146, 147, 192, 194, 217, 219. 

I'ripp, John, 142, 145, 146, 147, 192, 
194, 217, 219. 

Tripp, Mercy (Lawton), (Mrs. James 
Tripp), 192, 194, 217, 219. 

Trott, Ann, 132. 

Trott, John, 147. 

True, Eleanor (Mrs. Abraham Morrill), 
dau. William True, 228, 229. 

True, Eleanor (Stevens), (Mrs. Wil- 
liam True), 229. 

True, William, 229. 

Tucker, Abraham, 191, 194. 

Tucker, Elizabeth (Mrs. JamesS 
Barker), dau. Abraham Tucker, 191. 

Tucker, Hannah (Mott), (Mrs. Abra- 
ham Tucker), 191. 

Tupper, Benjamin, 114. 

Turner, Bathsheba (Hobart), (Mrs. 
Joseph Turner), 84. 



Van der Velde, Bridget, 174. 
Van Leer Family, 168. 
Varney, Esther (Starbuck), 21. 
Varney, Humphrey, 21. 
Varney, Sar-ah (Starbuck), 21. 
Vere, family name, 66. 
Vincent, John, 148. 
Vines, Richard, 5. 



Wadleigh, Anne (Swaine), (Mrs. Jo- 
sephl Wadleigh), 227. 

Wadleigh, Dole2, son Dolei Wadley, 
227. 

Wadleigh, Josephl, 227. 

Wadleigh, Sarah (Mrs. Edward Ever- 
ett Capehart), 227. 

Wadley, Dolel, son Joseph2 Wadley, 
227, 230. 

Wadley, Elizabeth Can-ol (Pierce), 
(Mrs. Dole Wadley), 227. 



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Wadley, Elizabeth (Dole), (Mrs. Jo- 
seph2 Wadley), 227. 

Wadley (or Wadleigh) Family, 227. 

Wadley, Joseph2, 227. 

Wadley, Sarali (Colcord), (Mrs. Dolei 
Wadley), 227. 

Walker, Mary Pennypacker (Mrs. Cof- 
fin Colket), 231. 

Walters, Marianna (Mrs. Giles H. Cog- 
geshall), 219. 

Wanackniamack, receipt of, 11. 

Wanackmanack, deed of, 9. 

Warner, Ellen Bliss (Mrs. William 
Morris Davis), 165. 

Waterman, Avis, dau. Thaddeus Wa- 
terman, 226. 

Waterman Family, connection with 
Nantucket, 224. 

Waterman, Hepzibah (Coflan), (Mrs. 
Thaddeus Waterman), 224, 226. 

Waterman, Heijzibeth (Mrs. Martin 
McKenzie), dau. Thaddeus Water- 
man, 224, 226. 

Waterman, Robert, son Thaddeus 
Waterman, 226. 

Waterman, Thaddeus, 224, 226. 

Watson, Mercy (Mrs. Johns Freeman), 
229. 

Wearc, Elizabeth (Swain), (Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Weare), 66, 152. 

Weare, Hester (Mrs. Benjamin Swett), 
dau. Nathaniel Weare (or Wire), 
47, 66, 152, 153, 213, 214. 

Weare, name spelled Weare, Weir, 
Weyer, Wier, Wire, Wyer, 66. 

Weare, Nathaniel, 152. 

Weare (or Wire), Nathaniel, Jr., son 
Nathaniel Weare, Sr., 66. 

Weare, Nathaniel, Sr., son Peter 
Weare, 66. 

Weare (or Wire), Peter, son Nathan- 
iel Weare, 66. 

Weare, Sarah (Mrs. Nathaniel Weare), 
153, 214. 

Webb, George, 77. 

Webster, Ebenezer, grandfather Daniel 
Webster, 57. 

Webster, Mary (Mrs. William2 Swain), 
228. 

West, Joan (Mrs. Joshua Coggeshall), 
216, 219. 

Wetherill, Sarah, dau. Rev. William 
Wetherill, 85, 185. 

Wetherill, William, Rev., 85. 

Weymouth, Captain, 2. 

Wharton, Edward, 15, 16. 

Wharton, Katharine (Swift), (Mrs. 
Robert Wharton), 174. 

Wliarton, Robert, 174. 

White Family, 168. 

White, John, Rev., 79. 

^"Tiittior, Abigail (Hussey), (Mrs. 
John Whittier), 234, 235. 



Whittier, Charles C, 234, 236. 

Whittier, John, son Joseph Whittier2, 
234. 

Whittier, John Greenleaf, son John 
Whittier, 234, 236. 

V\ hittier, Josephl, son Thomas Whit- 
tier, 234, 236. 

Whittier, Josephs, son Josephl Whit- 
tier, 234. 

Whittier, Mary (Peaslee), (Mrs. Jo- 
sephl Whittier), 234, 236. 

Whittier, Ruth (Green), (Mrs. Thomas 
AVhittier), 234. 

Whittier, Sarah (Greenleaf), (Mrs. 
Joseph2 Whittier), 234, 235. 

Whittier, Thomas, 234, 236. 

Wier, the family name, 66. 

Wier (or Weare), Mary (Mrs. John 
Weare), C6. 

Wier (or Weare), Mary (Mrs. John 
Swain, Sr.), dau. Nathaniel Weare, 
66, 152. 

Wier (or Wyer or Weare), Nathaniel, 
152, 153, 214. 

Wiggins, Thomas, 19, 20. 

Wilcox, Mary (Cavender), (Mrs. Wil- 
liam J. Wilcox), 165. 

Wilcox, William J., 165. 

Williams, Lucy (Mrs. Robert Barker), 
156, 190, 191. 

Wing, Abigail (Mrs. Paul AVing), dau. 
Samuel Wing, 183, 184, 185, 186, 189. 

Wing, Abraham R., 186, 187. 

Wing, Alice Rogers (Mrs. Daniel C. 
Maxfield), 187. 

Wing, Aim (Rowland), (Mrs. Sands 
Wing), 186. 

Wing, Anna (Rogers), (Mrs. Samuel 
Wing), 186. 

Wing, Anna (Mrs. Samuel Rhodes), 
187. 

Wing, Anna (Mrs. Elwood Paige), IS". 

Wing, Asa Shove, son Stephen R. 
Wing, 187. 

Wing, Beulah R. (Mrs. Moses Folger 
Rogers), 186, 187. 

Wing, Charles, son Lindley Moore 
Wing, 187. 

Wing connection with Nantucket fam- 
ilies, 183. 

Wing, Content (Swift), (Mrs. Zac- 
cheus Wing, Jr.), 184. 

Wing, Conway Phelps, Rev., 56. 

Wing, Daniel, 77. 

Wing, Daniel, Jr., son Daniel, Sr., 
184. 

Wing, Daniel, Sr., son John Wing, 
59, 184. 

Wing, David Shove, died young, 187. 

Wing, Deborah (Bachelor), (Mrs. John 
Wing), 56, 57, 184, 185, 188, 190. 

Wing, Deborah (Dillingham), (Mrs. 
(Mrs Daniel Wing, Jr.), 184. 



Wing, Deborah (Mrs. Samuel Barker, 

1st wife), 188. 
Wing, Dorothy (Mrs. Samuel Wing, 

Sr.), dau. John Wing, 184, 188. 
Wing, Elizabeth (Holway), (Mrs. 

Lindley Moore Wing), 186, 187. 
Wing, Elizabeth (Collins Shove), 

(Mrs. Stephen R. Wing), 186, 187. 
Wing, Elizabeth (Mrs. John S. Perry), 

widow Fred Pond, 187. 
Wing, Hannah (Swift), (Mrs. Dan el 

Wing, Sr.), 184. 
Wing, Hepzibah (Mrs. William Colo- 
man, Sr.), 186. I 
Wing, Hepzibah (Hathaway), (Mrs. ? 

Samuel Wing, Jr.), 184, 186. 
Wing, Hepzibah (Mrs. Estes Newhall), 

189. 
Wing, Hepzibah, dau. Samuel Wing, 

1S6. 
Wing, John, 54, 57, 58, 59, 184, 185, 

188, 190. 
Wing, John, Jr., son Stephen Wing, 

188. 
Wing, Joseph Rogers, died young, 187. 
Wing, Joseph R., 186, 187. 
Wing, Lindley Moore, 186, 187. 
Wing, Lydia (Mrs. Sylvanus Hu^se.. 

Jr., 2d wife), 183, 185. 
Wing, Lydia (Renington), (Mrs. Ste- 
phen Rogers Wing), 187. 
Wing, Lydia, dau. Samuel Wing, 184, < 

186. ^ 

Wing, Mary Ann (Mrs. Joseph R. 

Wing), dau. Sands Wing, 186, '8V. 
Wing, Mary Anna, dau. Abraham ;; 

Wing, 187. 
Wing, Mary (Perry), (Mrs. Jo;.:^ 

Wing, Jr.), 188. 
Wing, Mary H., dau. Joseph R. Wing. 

187. 
Wing, Mary R., dau. Samuel Wing, 

186. 
Wing, Mary S. (Gardner), (Mrs. Abra- 
ham R. Wing), 186. 
Wing, Paul, 186. 
Wing, Paul, son Zaccheus Wing, 184. 

185, 189. 
W'ing, Samuel, Jr., son Samuel Wing', 

Sr., 184, 186. 
Wing, Samuel, Sr., son Daniel Wing. 

Jr., 184. 
AVing, Samuel, son Abraham R. iVing, 

187. 
Wing, Samuel, son Paul Wing, 186. 
Wing, Sands, 186. . 

Wing, Sarah (Briggs), (Mrs. Stephen/ 

Wing), 188. 
Wing, Sophia (Rhodes), 187. 
Wing, Stephen, son John W^ng, 188. 
Wing-, Stephen R., died .voung, 187. 
Wing, Stephen R., 180, 187. 
Wing, Stephen Rogers, 187. 



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Wing, Zaccheus, son Daniel Wing, Jr., 

184. 
Winslow, Edward, 79. 
Winthrop, John, Esq., 6. 
Wood, Mary (Mrs. John Hussey), 

50, 51. 
Wood, Mary (Mrs. Richardi Mitchell), 

192, 194, 217, 219. 
Wood, Mary Ann (Mrs. Ezra Cornell), 

211. 
Woodbridge, Mrs. Mary A., dau. Judge 

Brayton, 145. 



Worth, Anna (Mrs.Abrahami Macy), 195. 
Worth, John, son William Worth, 196, 

199, 204, 222. 
Worth, Joseph, son John Worth, 196. 
Worth, Judith (Mrs. John Macy, Jr.), 

dau. John Worth, 198, 199, 203, 204, 

221, 222. 
Worth, Justice, 30. 
Worth, Lydia (Gorham), (Mrs. Joseph 

Worth), 195. 
Worth, Miriam (Gardner), (Mrs. Jolm 

Worth), 196, 199, 204, 222. 



Worth, Sarah (Macy), (Mrs. Willian 

Worth), 196, 199, 222. 
Worth, Shubael, 113. 
Worth, WilUam, 196, 199, 222. 
Wyer, Robert, 66. 
YarnaU, Benjamin H., 163. 
Yarnall, Caroline (Cope), (Mrs. Ed 

ward Yarnall), 164. 
Yarnall, Edward, 164. 
Yarnall, Eliza (Coffin), (Mrs. Benja' 

min H. Yarnall), 163. 




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